BlockFrom the record
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Baca County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Two Buttes Gymnasium
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 5th and C Sts., Two Buttes, 81084
- When was it listed? December 2009
- Category. building
- Also known as. New Deal Resources on Colorado's Eastern Plains MPS
- Census division. Walsh
- National Register reference number. 09001119 - 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
6 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Two Buttes Gymnasium between 1993 and 2018, burning about 726 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 595 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MOORE DRAW |
| 18 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Springfield Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 8 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Walsh Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 6 June 2018 | Natural | 100 acres | Walsh Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 12 March 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Baca County Office | not named |
| 13 January 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 30 acres | Prowers County | not named |
Storms near this property
52 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Two Buttes, the town this property stands in, in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 40 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | $5,000 | Eight power poles were blown down near the intersection of County Roads 39 and KK. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Two Buttes | $5,000 | A tornado downed large tree limbs and destroyed some weak outbuildings at a ranch. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | Strong outflow winds of 80mph were recorded in Two Buttes. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Two Buttes | - | Law enforcement confirmed tornado touched the ground. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Two Buttes | - | Trained spotter reports tornado touched down northeast of Two Buttes. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail fell 12 miles NE of Two Buttes, in Prowers County. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | Trained spotter reported large hail near Two Buttes. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | Trained spotter reported golf ball size hail. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | High winds brought down numerous large tree branches. |
| July 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Two Buttes | - | The tornado occurred over open country and caused no known damage. |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Two Buttes | - | A brief funnel cloud occurred over the northern part of the county near Two Buttes. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
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 09001119 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Baca County | All 3 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.