Hahns Peak Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Routt County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Hahns Peak, 80428
When was it listed? February 1974
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Steamboat Springs
National Register reference number. 74000594 - 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

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Hahns Peak Schoolhouse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 14 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
29 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BLUE SKY
26 September 2010	Smoking	8.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	COULTON
2 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Routt Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
2 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	GROUSE
17 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SAND
15 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	RED CREEK
1 September 2004	Natural	5.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SAND MTN
7 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	TWIN MOUNTAIN

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Hahns Peak Schoolhouse: 47 occurrences, 11 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper. 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
7d Tunnel	Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Farwell Mountain Northwest	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Occurrence
Farwell Mtn.	Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite
Hahns Peak District	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Molybdenum	Prospect	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Royal Flush Mine	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Tom Thumb Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Unknown	Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold	Occurrence
Campbell Tunnel and Shaft	Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver	Occurrence
Colo. Mining Co.	Copper, Molybdenum	Occurrence
Emancipation Group	Copper, Molybdenum	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Routt 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

2 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
	Columbine	3.6 miles	2007
	Summit Creek Ranger Station	5.3 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000594 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Routt County	All 26 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.