Old Ladore School

Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Moffat County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1911.

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. By Green River on SR 318, Brown's Park, 81640
When was it listed? February 1975
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Maybell-Powder Wash
When was it built? 1911
National Register reference number. 75000525 - 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Old Ladore School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,774 acres in total. 84 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	84
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	24 acres	Northwest District, Craig	LODORE
24 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	GRIMES
23 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	ELK KNOB
23 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge	JOYS BURN
19 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Little Snake Field Office	CONWAY
12 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	HOY
1 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	GOODMAN
1 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Dinosaur National Monument	GLOW

Every fire recorded in Moffat County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Old Ladore School: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Airborne Anomaly 56-10	Uranium	Unknown
Airborne Anomaly 56-11	Uranium	Unknown
Airborne Anomaly 56-9	Uranium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Moffat 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
	Two-Bar Ranch	0.5 miles	1978
	Upper Wade and Curtis Cabin	3.7 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000525 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.