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One of 11 National Register listings published here for Eagle County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Upper Brush Creek School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Between Coulter Meadow & W. Brush Cr. Rds., Eagle, 81631
- When was it listed? April 2015
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
- Census division. Eagle-Gypsum
- National Register reference number. 15000126 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
76 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Upper Brush Creek School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 44 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | YEOMAN PARK |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | MCKENZIE GULCH |
| 6 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | LEDE |
| 6 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | M GREEN |
| 6 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | ONE |
| 6 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | H SCRABBLE |
| 4 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | HARDSCRABBLE |
| 30 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | White River National Forest | ADAM MOUNTAIN |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Upper Brush Creek School: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Gold, Uranium, Vanadium, Silver, Uranium, Vanadium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue-Bell, Lady Bell and Adjoinin | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Horse Mountain Uranium Mines | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | 1915 | |
| Lady Bell, Eagled | Gold, Uranium, Vanadium, Silver | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Ground Hog Mine | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Lady Bell Mine | Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1913 | |
| North Dakota Mine Kleckner & Mack | Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1913 | |
| Unknown | Silver | Occurrence | Silver | |
| Unknown | Silver | Producer | Vein |
Storms near this property
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Eagle | $2,000 | Water and mud came down a drainage from the north and flowed across all lanes of Interstate 70 and continued across Highway 6. The flow of water and mud covered a 175 yard stretch of Interstate 70 and Highway 6 and was up to 4 feet deep when it struck the interstate. Two cars on Interstate 70 were stuck in 1.5 feet deep mud which was up to 3 feet deep in the west-bound lanes. The west-bound lanes of the interstate were closed for about 6 hours, while HIghway 6 and the east-bound lanes of the interstate were closed for a shorter period of time. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Eagle | $2,000 | Heavy rainfall in the Sylvan Lake State Park area resulted in a flash flood. The flood came down from the east and was filled with debris that flowed up to 8 feet in depth down a normally dry drainage called Sneeve Gulch. Unofficial rainfall measurements of just over 2 inches came from the State Park Service. The flash flood widened the gulch from about 10 feet to 30 feet. The flash flood crossed USFS Road 400 and a Park Service tributary road. When the flash flood struck the main road, the culverts were immediately clogged with debris and the flow of water and debris went across the road, causing errosion to the road and depositing several feet of debris on the road. An 8 foot high berm adjacent to the Park Service tributary road was 10 feet in length prior to the flash flood. After the flood the berm was 70 feet in length. The debris within the flash flood included trees up to 2 feet in diameter and boulders up to 4 feet in diameter. About 80 people were trapped at the Sylvan Lake State Park campground that night. The flash flood came close to a couple of State Park structures. Otherwise, there was no significant property damage except to the USFS Road 400 where the culverts needed to be replaced. |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Eagle | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Eagle | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Flood | Eagle | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Flood | Eagle | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle | - | no account filed |
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 15000126 in Record Group 79. |
| Eagle County | All 11 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.