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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Arapahoe County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Jamaica Primary School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 800 Jamaica St., Aurora, 80010
- When was it listed? May 2017
- Category. building
- Also known as. Colorado's Mid Century Schools, 1945-1970 MPS
- Census division. South Aurora
- National Register reference number. 100000928 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
874 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 874 fires within 5 miles of Jamaica Primary School between 2001 and 2020, burning about 271 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 40 were 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/undetermined | 691 |
| Smoking | 45 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Fireworks | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Aurora Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Aurora Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Aurora Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Aurora Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Aurora Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Aurora Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jamaica Primary School: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| H W Siddle Inc Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
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.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Commandant of Cadets Building, US Air Force Academy | 0.8 miles | 2007 |
 | William Smith House | 0.9 miles | 1985 |
 | Gully Homestead | 3.1 miles | 1986 |
 | DeLaney Barn | 3.1 miles | 1989 |
| South Dahlia Lane | 5.4 miles | 2025 | |
 | David W. Brown House | 7.1 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000928 in Record Group 79. |
| Arapahoe 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.
- 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.
- 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.