Clifton Community Center and Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Clifton Community Center and Church is a historic church in Mesa County, Colorado. It is located at the corner of F and Main Street in Clifton, Colorado, a town approximately five miles east of Grand Junction, Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Clifton Community Center and Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 1982 · 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. F and Main St., Clifton, 81520
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Census division. Clifton
National Register reference number. 82002307 - 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

790 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 790 fires within 5 miles of Clifton Community Center and Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 377 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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	676
Smoking	33
Debris and open burning	30
Recreation and ceremony	13
Fireworks	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clifton Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN
8 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clifton Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN
6 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Junction Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Clifton Community Center and Church: 9 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Garfield	Uranium	Unknown
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Clay Pit	Clay	Unknown
Clay Pit	Clay	Unknown
Unnamed Mine	Clay	Unknown
Corn Const Co 30 1/2 Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Corn Construction Co 30 Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gearhart Mt Garfield	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Golden Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifton, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 3 heavy rain, 2 lightning, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Clifton	1 killed	no account filed
September 1998	Lightning	Clifton	1 hurt	no account filed
September 1997	Lightning	Clifton	$2,000	no account filed
June 2018	Dust Devil	Clifton	$1,000	An intense dust devil crossed a back yard and yanked a strongly anchored trampoline up an into the air which then crashed to the ground and was totally destroyed. The rebar anchors had been embedded into the hard and dry clay ground to a depth of 18 inches. Roof shingles were also torn off the corner of the nearby house.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifton	$500	A microburst from a dry thunderstorm blew a trampoline about a hundred feet and knocked over some cottonwood trees. Other unsecured objects were blown away.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifton	-	A National Weather Service employee estimated a peak wind gust of 60 mph. A large portion of the employee's fence was blown down as a result of the winds.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Clifton	-	In the Clifton area 0.52 of an inch of rain fell within 20 minutes.
May 2015	Hail	Clifton	-	Strong thunderstorms produced hail up to the size of quarters in the community of Clifton.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Clifton	-	Rainfall of 0.67 inches occurred.
September 2003	Hail	Clifton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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
Kettle-Jens House	1.1 miles	1983
Cross Land and Fruit Company Orchards and Ranch	1.7 miles	1980
TBM Avenger Aircraft N53503	4.4 miles	2017
Herbert and Edith Crissey House	5.4 miles	2003
North Seventh Street Historic Residential District	6.1 miles	1984
Margery Building	6.4 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002307 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mesa County	All 33 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.