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7-D School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The 7-D School, in Las Animas County, Colorado, near Branson, Colorado, was built during 1936-37 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.”

Wikipedia article 7-D School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

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. Co. Rd. 171 N. of Co. Rd. 50.6, Branson, 81027
  • When was it listed? December 2009
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. New Deal Resources on Colorado's Eastern Plains MPS
  • Census division. Kim
  • National Register reference number. 09001120 - 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

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of 7-D School in 2020, burning about 1,731 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,731 acresLas Animas CountyVILLEGREEN FIRE

Every fire 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025HailBranson-Hail up to 1 inches was measured in western Las Animas County.
September 2025HailBranson-Hail up to 1.25 inches was measured in western Las Animas County.
September 2025HailBranson-Hail up to 1.5 inches was measured in western Las Animas County.
October 2024HailBranson-Hailstones were fused together, some the size of a golf ball.
May 2017Funnel CloudBranson-A large funnel cloud occurred. Close up eyewitnesses reported they did not see a dust whirl on the ground.
August 2010HailBranson-no account filed
August 2009HailBranson-no account filed
June 2003HailBranson-no account filed
June 2003HailBranson-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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 09001120 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Las Animas CountyAll 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.
  • 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.