Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
From the record
“The Maxwell Park School, in Chaffee County, Colorado near Buena Vista, Colorado was built in 1912, replacing an earlier, wooden building built in 1889. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.”
Wikipedia article Maxwell Park School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1889.
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Buena Vista
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 100005853 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
100 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Maxwell Park School
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 8 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
42
Natural
22
Recreation and ceremony
18
Arson/incendiarism
8
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
4
Debris and open burning
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
40 workings within 5 miles of Maxwell Park School: 18 past producers, 16 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Buena Vista, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
In total, five mudslides occurred on Cottonwood Pass Road (CR 306) about one mile west of the hot springs pool. The mud on the road ranged from two to 14 feet deep. Cottonwood Hot Springs and several residences needed to be evacuated as a precaution.
While no humans were affected, a pig was struck by lightning and killed. The pig was a prized swine, scheduled to be entered in the 4-H competition at the Chaffee County Fair.
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.
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.
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.
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