South Park Community Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The South Park Community Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style church building located at 600 Hathaway Street in Fairplay, Park County, Colorado. Built in 1874, the church was founded by Presbyterian missionary Sheldon Jackson.”
Wikipedia article South Park Community Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6th and Hathaway Sts., Fairplay, 80440
When was it listed? November 1977
Category. building
Census division. Fairplay
National Register reference number. 77000382 - 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of South Park Community Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined	34
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	FAIRPLAY
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
22 September 2019	Other causes	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	GAP
22 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
21 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
15 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwest Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of South Park Community Church: 14 occurrences, 5 producers, 5 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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	Recorded
Alma Placers	Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bonanza Group	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Platte River Placers	Uranium, Gold	Past Producer
Quarry	Uranium, Gold	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairplay, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 2 lightning, 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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
June 2010	Lightning	Fairplay	$1,000	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Fairplay	$40	Hail accumulated 4 inches deep in and near Fairplay causing power failures and damage to power and communication equipment.
June 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Fairplay	-	A tornado touched down and caused minor damage to the roof of a home.
June 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Fairplay	-	A tornado touched down in open country.
June 1997	Lightning	Fairplay	-	Lightning knocked out radio communications between Platte Canyon and Fairplay. The time of the incident was approximated.

Every storm recorded in Park 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fairplay Hotel	under 500 feet	2008
Park County Courthouse and Jail	0.1 miles	1979
South Park Lager Beer Brewery	0.2 miles	1974
South Park City Museum	0.3 miles	2014
Summer Saloon	0.3 miles	1974
Spring House-Moynahan House	5.2 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000382 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park 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.
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.