Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The Convicts' Bread Oven is a concrete oven built in 1911 in the style of Mexican adobe ovens. It was used to bake bread daily from April 1911 through July 1912 to feed 30 state prison inmates and their guards as they worked on a stretch of road in Plateau Canyon.”
Wikipedia article Convicts' Bread Oven, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 1974 · category: Object.
National Register reference number.74000589- 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
135 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Convicts' Bread Oven
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,412 acres in total. 104 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
Natural
104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
21
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Debris and open burning
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Smoking
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
1 working within 5 miles of Convicts' Bread Oven: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Quartz, Feldspar, Mica, Tin. 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
Molina, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 debris flow.
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.
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.
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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