Gas Creek School

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The Gas Creek School, near Nathrop, Colorado in Chaffee County, Colorado, was built in 1909. It was the only school in Chaffee County School District No. 20 and it operated from 1909 to 1958.”
Wikipedia article Gas Creek School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1909.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 2 objectss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 20925 US 285, Nathrop, 81236
When was it listed? November 2018
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Salida
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number. 100003127 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Gas Creek School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 391 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Front Range District Office	SUGAR LOAF
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	TIE GULCH
24 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	SUGAR LOAF MTN
16 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	SAWMILL
15 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	RUBY MOUNTAIN
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	SPRING GULCH
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	ARNOLD
5 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	COTTONWOOD CREEK

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Gas Creek School: 8 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Futurity	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Nathrop Ruby Mt.	Pumice, Perlite	Occurrence	Pumice
Shannon Last Chance	Granite	Past Producer
Hortense Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Lower Arkansas River Placers	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Lower Browns Creek Placer	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Mount Princeton Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Nachtrieb-Kelly Ranch	5.7 miles	2017
Maxwell Park School	6.0 miles	2020
Bridge over Arkansas River	6.3 miles	1985
Brown's Canyon Bridge	7.6 miles	2013
Smith-Friskey Ranch	7.7 miles	2017
Head Lettuce Day-Collegiate Peaks Stampede Rodeo Grounds	7.8 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003127 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chaffee County	All 46 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.