Pleasant Valley School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Co. Rd. 143 just S. of US Hwy 160, Branson, 81027
When was it listed? August 2008
Category. building
Also known as. New Deal Resources on Colorado's Eastern Plains MPS
Census division. Branson
National Register reference number. 08000764 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this property

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Branson, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 8 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2025	Hail	Branson	-	Hail up to 1 inches was measured in western Las Animas County.
September 2025	Hail	Branson	-	Hail up to 1.25 inches was measured in western Las Animas County.
September 2025	Hail	Branson	-	Hail up to 1.5 inches was measured in western Las Animas County.
October 2024	Hail	Branson	-	Hailstones were fused together, some the size of a golf ball.
May 2017	Funnel Cloud	Branson	-	A large funnel cloud occurred. Close up eyewitnesses reported they did not see a dust whirl on the ground.
August 2010	Hail	Branson	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Branson	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Branson	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Branson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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 08000764 in Record Group 79.
Las Animas County	All 26 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.