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Photograph of Georgetown-Silver Plume Historic District
Photograph by Photo by Louis Charles McClure, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Georgetown Schoolhouse

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“The Georgetown-Silver Plume National Historic Landmark District is a federally designated United States National Historic Landmark that comprises the Town of Georgetown, the Town of Silver Plume, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two silver mining towns along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.”

Wikipedia article Georgetown-Silver Plume Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 16 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. I-70, Georgetown-Silver Plume, 80444
  • When was it listed? November 1966
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Georgetown
  • National Register reference number. 66000243 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWEST CHICAGO CREEK
27 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandUTE CREEK
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClear Creek County OfficeCCX 884
23 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandTHREE CHIEFS
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
16 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSOUTH CHICAGO
13 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWEST CHICAGO CREEK

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 345 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 345 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown Schoolhouse: 274 past producers, 32 occurrences, 31 producers, 6 unknowns. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Lead, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AmyLead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Anglo Saxon MineSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadOccurrenceVein
Anglo-Saxon MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast ProducerVein
Bard Creek MineZinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceLead, Silver
Bellevue-RochesterGold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite
Bellview-HudsonGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincProducerVein
Capitol PrizeSilver, Gold, Lead, Copper, ZincProducer
Capitol PrizeGold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Cascade MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, LeadPast ProducerGalena, Pyrargyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Silver
Colorado Central MineZinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerArgentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Alpine Hose Company No. 20.2 miles1973
Grace Episcopal Church0.2 miles1973
Hamill House0.3 miles1972
Hotel de Paris0.3 miles1970
Toll House0.5 miles1970
McClellan House0.6 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000243 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clear Creek CountyAll 24 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.