Frisco Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Frisco Schoolhouse, now a local museum registered on the National Register of Historic Places, is an original one-room schoolhouse located in the Frisco Historic Park in Frisco, Colorado. The schoolhouse is located on its original location.”
Wikipedia article Frisco Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Summit 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 120 Main St., Frisco, 80443
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Breckenridge
National Register reference number. 83001333 - 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Frisco Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 6 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	111
Recreation and ceremony	50
Natural	17
Arson/incendiarism	6
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	LOWRY
8 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Dillon Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Dillon Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	WATERLINE
8 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	PROSPECTOR
8 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	MT ROYAL
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	White River National Forest	SENTINEL ISLAND

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Frisco Schoolhouse: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Lead. 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
Frisco	Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
King Soloman	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Skookum Mine	Vanadium	Past Producer
Unknown	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Unknown
Blue River Placers	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Buffalo Placers	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Placer

Every working recorded in Summit 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

5 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
Wildhack's Grocery Store-Post Office	0.3 miles	1985
The Bunk House Lodge	4.5 miles	2025
Soda Creek Ranch	5.8 miles	2010
Masonic Placer Cemetery-Valley Brook Cemetery	6.0 miles	2014
Breckenridge Historic District	7.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001333 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit County	All 8 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.