Indian Park School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 mi. (16 km) W of Sedalia on CO 67, Sedalia, 80135
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Sedalia
National Register reference number. 78000857 - 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Indian Park School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Recreation and ceremony	33
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Firearms and explosives use	2
Fireworks	2
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	787
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	N/A
7 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	GARBER
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	RUSSEL RIDGE
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	31
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	INDIAN CREEK
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	BIRTHDAY
25 September 2020	Firearms and explosives use	2.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	RIM ROAD

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Indian Park School: 10 occurrences, 9 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar, Mica, 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
California Quarry	Feldspar, REE, Niobium (Columbium)	Past Producer	Microcline, Pyrochlore
Helmer Bros.	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Helmer Lime Quarry	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pine Creek	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Saddle Rock Ranch	Silica, Quartz	Past Producer
Unknown	Mica, Feldspar	Occurrence	Feldspar, Mica
Unnamed Copper Prospect	Copper, Uranium, Nickel, Cobalt	Occurrence	Vein
Wildcat	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Kaminski Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence	Euxenite

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedalia, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 hail, 4 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
May 2017	Lightning	Sedalia	1 killed, 1 hurt, $5,000	A woman and her horse were killed after they were struck by lightning. A 15-year-old girl also sustained serious injuries and was treated for electrocution.
August 2000	Lightning	Sedalia	$2,000,000	Lightning sparked a blaze which gutted a 10-unit apartment building in Highlands Ranch. Twenty-eight people were left homeless.
May 2009	Lightning	Sedalia	$200,000	no account filed
June 2012	Flash Flood	Sedalia	-	Heavy rain allowed Plum Creek to exceed flood stage by nearly a foot at Sedalia which resulted in lowland flooding.
June 2003	Lightning	Sedalia	-	Lightning blew a hole in the roof of a home in Highlands Ranch. The bolt knocked several holes in the bedroom ceilings and damaged the home's electrical system.
June 1994	Hail	Sedalia	-	Hail up to dime-size covered Interstate 25 south of Sedalia (22 miles south of Denver). Heavy rain caused local flooding on the Interstate.
June 2023	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedalia	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedalia	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Sedalia	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Sedalia	-	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.

Listed places nearby

4 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
Church of St. Philip-in-the-Field and Bear Canon Cemetery	6.6 miles	1973
Santa Fe Railway Water Tank	7.5 miles	2003
Louviers Village Club	7.7 miles	1995
Louviers Village	7.8 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000857 in Record Group 79.
Douglas County	All 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.