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Photograph of Grace Church
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grace Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Grace Church, formerly the Grace Episcopal Church, is a historic Carpenter Gothic style church building located in Buena Vista, Chaffee County, Colorado. Originally built as an Episcopal church in 1889 by the Lannan Brothers, its Carpenter Gothic details include board and batten siding, lancet windows and door openings and buttresses.”

Wikipedia article Grace Church (Buena Vista, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 and Park Ave., Buena Vista, 81211
  • When was it listed? January 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Buena Vista
  • Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic
  • National Register reference number. 78000834 - 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Grace Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 10 were 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/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony37
Natural23
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFront Range District OfficeHOPP GULCH
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCENTRY
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeMIDLAND
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeLOSTSPRING
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeHOP CANYON
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
25 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
24 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestBALD MTN

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Grace Episcopal Church: 18 past producers, 14 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Be TrueUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Buena VistaGold, PlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
JosephineMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Luella PegmatiteFeldspar, REE, Bismuth, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1946
QuakerLead, ZincPast Producer
Unidentified Monazite OccurrenceUranium, REEOccurrenceEuxenite, Monazite
UnknownClayOccurrence
Eureka MountainGold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Mary A ClaimsGold, CopperPast Producer
Picuris Placer MineVanadiumOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Chaffee County

Storms near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buena Vista, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Flash FloodBuena Vista2 hurt, $100,000no account filed
June 2005LightningBuena Vista$50,000no account filed
July 2007Flash FloodBuena Vista$20,000Flash flooding occurred, which brought 2 to 3 feet of standing water and mud in low lying residental areas of Buena Vista.
July 2021Flash FloodBuena Vista-Heavy rainfall washed out County road 371, from a small drainage which flows across the road. Two cars were stuck in the mud.
July 2021Flash FloodBuena Vista-County road 304 was washed out.
July 2017Flash FloodBuena Vista-A flash flood and mud flow on US Highway 285 near Johnson Village made the road impassible for a time.
August 2004Flash FloodBuena Vista-The ongoing mudslides occurred on Cottonwood Pass road, causing a threat to motorists, campers, and nearby homeowners.
August 2004Flash FloodBuena Vista-In total, five mudslides occurred on Cottonwood Pass Road (CR 306) about one mile west of the hot springs pool. The mud on the road ranged from two to 14 feet deep. Cottonwood Hot Springs and several residences needed to be evacuated as a precaution.
July 2004LightningBuena Vista-While no humans were affected, a pig was struck by lightning and killed. The pig was a prized swine, scheduled to be entered in the 4-H competition at the Chaffee County Fair.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chaffee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kelley-McDonald House0.2 miles2015
William and Anna Fay House0.3 miles2015
Buena Vista Ranger Station0.3 miles2022
Jacobs Building0.3 miles2011
J. M. Bonney House0.3 miles1994
Chaffee County Courthouse and Jail Buildings0.4 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000834 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chaffee CountyAll 46 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.