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Photograph of Foidel Canyon School
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Foidel Canyon School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Foidel Canyon School, in Routt County, Colorado northwest of Oak Creek, Colorado, is a one-room schoolhouse built in 1923. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Foidel Canyon School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Routt County · listed in 1983 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NW of Oak Creek, Oak Creek, 80467
  • When was it listed? May 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
  • Census division. Oak Creek
  • National Register reference number. 83001332 - 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Foidel Canyon School between 1994 and 2012, burning about 260 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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/undetermined2
Natural2

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
16 July 1994Natural4.0 acresRoutt Countynot named
15 July 1994Natural30 acresRoutt Countynot named
14 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersHAYDEN
10 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined226 acresRoutt CountyMIDDLE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Storms near this property

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Creek, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 4 hail, 2 wildfire, 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2011HailOak Creek$50,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported in Oak Creek.
June 2005HailOak Creek$5,000no account filed
July 2005Heavy RainOak Creek$5,000no account filed
July 2007Heavy RainOak Creek-A thunderstorm produced .90 inches of rain in 45 minutes in downtown Oak Creek.
July 2005HailOak Creek-no account filed
May 2002HailOak Creek-no account filed
June 2000WildfireOak Creek-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindOak Creek-no account filed
August 2000WildfireOak Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Routt 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

1 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
Bell Mercantile7.6 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001332 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Routt CountyAll 26 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.
  • 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.