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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Moffat County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lay School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 7 Eddy Ave., Lay, 81625
- When was it listed? March 2013
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
- Census division. Craig
- National Register reference number. 13000080 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
68 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Lay School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,263 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 63 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | SWEET |
| 9 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | LAY |
| 9 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | JUNIPER |
| 9 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | RIO |
| 8 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | RIBS |
| 7 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 62 acres | Northwest District, Craig | LAY CREEK |
| 6 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | HOT SPRING |
| 4 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | JUNIPER |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Lay School: 17 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Loaf Mine | Uranium, Vanadium, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Molybdenite, Uranophane | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Buffalo Head Prospect | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | Uranophane | |
| Agnes No. 7 | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Agnes No. 7 Claim | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Airborne Anomaly B17-101 | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Airborne Anomaly B17-102 | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Airborne Anomaly B17-89 | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Airborne Anomaly B17-90 | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Airborne Anomaly B17-93 | Uranium | Unknown |
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 record | The nomination case file for reference 13000080 in Record Group 79. |
| Moffat County | All 13 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.