BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Saguache County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Saguache School and Jail Buildings
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. U.S. 285 and San Juan Ave., Saguache, 81149
- When was it listed? May 1975
- Category. building
- Census division. Saguache
- National Register reference number. 75000541 - 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
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Saguache School and Jail Buildings between 1995 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | CANON |
| 21 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Saguache County | CO RD 48X |
| 11 March 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Saguache County | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Saguache School and Jail Buildings: 9 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saguache, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1999 | Flash Flood | Saguache | $65,000 | Heavy rainfall flooded Saguache Creek and its tributaries both north and south of highway 114. County roads and a few bridges were washed out. Property adjacent to the creeks was inundated, washing out driveways to ranch houses and destroying some hay fields. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Saguache | - | Colorado DOT reports CO 114 closed due to flash flooding from CR 36 to FS road 840. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Saguache | - | Flash flooding occurred at Highway 114 and County Road 38EE. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Saguache | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Saguache | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saguache Downtown Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75000541 in Record Group 79. |
| Saguache County | All 7 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.