Manzanola United Methodist Church (MUMC)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 115 Park Street, Manzanola, 81058
When was it listed? November 2024
Category. building
Census division. Manzanola
National Register reference number. 100011069 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Manzanola United Methodist Church (MUMC) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 42 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	1
Smoking	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 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
25 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Otero County	not named
11 July 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Rocky Ford Fire Department	UNKNOWN
12 June 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Rocky Ford Fire Department	UNKNOWN
23 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
8 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olney Springs Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
6 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Rocky Ford Fire Department	UNKNOWN
5 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	OLNEY SPRINGS

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Manzanola United Methodist Church (MUMC): 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Otero County

Storms near this property

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manzanola, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 21 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Manzanola	-	Four transmission power poles along US50 just west of Manzanola blown down. Numerous trees down in Otero county. Time based on radar.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Manzanola	-	Right lane of Hwy 50 flooded with one car stalled.
August 2020	Hail	Manzanola	-	Trained spotter reported large hail, 1 inch.
June 2019	Hail	Manzanola	-	Nickel hail and heavy rain reported.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Manzanola	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roadways and low spots, including US Highway 50.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Manzanola	-	Fourteen power poles were knocked down between County Roads 13.5 and 14.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Manzanola	-	A short-lived tornado caused no known damage in open country.
May 1999	Hail	Manzanola	-	This hail report and all that follow on this date occurred as a result of a long lasting supercell which developed in Pueblo county. Severe hail was first reported in western Otero county. The cyclic supercell produced large to very large hail along its path, and brought damaging downburst winds to Bent county. No firm dollar amounts were available as of late July.
July 2023	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Manzanola	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Manzanola	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otero 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Santa Fe Railway Manzanola Depot	0.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011069 in Record Group 79.
Otero County	All 19 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.
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.