First Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“First Congregational Church is a historic church at 101 Pawnee Avenue in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Completed in August 1880, it was the first church built in Manitou Springs and is the oldest continuously operated Congregational church in Colorado.”
Wikipedia article First Congregational Church (Manitou Springs, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for El Paso County · listed in 1979 · 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. 101 Pawnee Ave., Manitou Springs, 80829
When was it listed? October 1979
Category. building
Census division. Monument
National Register reference number. 79000606 - 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

637 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 637 fires within 5 miles of First Congregational Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,778 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined	539
Natural	25
Smoking	22
Recreation and ceremony	21
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Fireworks	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado Springs Fire Department	UNKNOWN
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado Springs Fire Department	UNKNOWN
8 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Colorado Springs Fire Department	UNKNOWN
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado Springs Fire Department	UNKNOWN
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado Springs Fire Department	UNKNOWN
29 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Manitou Springs Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of First Congregational Church: 30 producers, 16 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 prospect. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Black Canyon	Magnesite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Black Canyon	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesite	Past Producer
Blair Athol Mine	Copper, Uranium, Manganese	Past Producer	Chalcocite
Camp Creek Mine	Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Castle Concrete Lennox B	Magnesite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crystal Park Area	Beryllium, Gemstone, Niobium (Columbium), REE	Producer	Amazonstone, Zircon
Gold Hill Mesa tailings	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	tailings
Kenmuir	Stone, Dimension	Producer
South Apache Creek Prospects	Uranium, Vanadium	Prospect
Springs Silica Co	Silica, Quartz	Past Producer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Wheeler Bank	0.1 miles	1980
Manitou Springs Bridges (2)	0.2 miles	1985
Barker House	0.2 miles	1979
Manitou Bathhouse	0.3 miles	1979
Cliff House	0.3 miles	1980
US Post Office-Manitou Springs Main	0.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000606 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
El Paso County	All 98 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.