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Photograph of Spring Valley School
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Spring Valley School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Spring Valley School near Larkspur, Colorado was built in 1874. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”

Wikipedia article Spring Valley School (Larkspur, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Larkspur at Spring Valley and Lorraine Rds., Larkspur, 80118
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
  • Census division. Castle Rock
  • National Register reference number. 78000856 - 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

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Spring Valley School between 1993 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersMONUMENT
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLarkspur Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTri Lakes Monument Fire Rescue AuthorityUNKNOWN
1 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersMONUMENT
5 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresDouglas Countynot named
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLarkspur Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDouglas Countynot named
26 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreDouglas Countynot named

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Spring Valley School: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larkspur, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 23 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Flash FloodLarkspur-Heavy rain washed out a frontage road. The Mountain Ranch subdivision was also flooded.
August 1993HailLarkspur-A severe thunderstorm dropped hail up to dime-size in Larkspur (26 miles north northwest of Colorado Springs).
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLarkspur-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLarkspur-no account filed
September 2019HailLarkspur-no account filed
May 2017HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2016HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2016HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2015HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2015HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2015HailLarkspur-no account filed
May 2015HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2011HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 2010HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 2009HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 2007HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 2007HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 2007HailLarkspur-no account filed
May 2006HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 2006HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2005HailLarkspur-no account filed
June 2004HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLarkspur-no account filed
May 2000HailLarkspur-no account filed
August 1998HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 1996HailLarkspur-no account filed
July 1995HailLarkspur-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000856 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas CountyAll 24 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.