First Baptist Church of Moffat

Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“First Baptist Church of Moffat was a Baptist church in Moffat, Colorado and is a historic Place at 401 Lincoln Avenue.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church of Moffat, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Saguache County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1911.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 401 Lincoln Ave., Moffat, 81143
When was it listed? July 2008
Category. building
Also known as. Ornamental Concrete Block Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Saguache
When was it built? 1911
National Register reference number. 08000710 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of First Baptist Church of Moffat between 1995 and 2011, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	MOFFAT
6 January 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Saguache County	not named

Every fire recorded in Saguache County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moffat, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Moffat	$100,000	Microburst thunderstorm winds caused significant roof damage to the elementary school in Moffat.
September 2013	Hail	Moffat	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Moffat	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saguache County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000710 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saguache County	All 7 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.