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Photograph of Bunce School
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Bunce School

Built in 1888. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Bunce School, near Allenspark, Colorado near the Continental Divide in Boulder County, Colorado, is a historic one-room schoolhouse built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Bunce School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1888.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. CO 7 S of Allenspark, Allenspark, 80540
  • When was it listed? May 1986
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Upper St. Vrain
  • When was it built? 1888
  • National Register reference number. 86001109 - 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Bunce School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,078 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined80
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony28
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandTAYLOR MOUNTAIN
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLefthand Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBUNCE SCHOOL
30 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAllenspark Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
24 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandST. VRAIN
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland217C

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Bunce School: 24 past producers, 17 occurrences, 7 producers, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alice Open PitLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer
ArgoUranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Lead, CopperProducerVein
ArgoFluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Copper, Uranium, Lead, SilverPast ProducerFluorspar, Galena, Sphalerite, Pyrite, Tennantite, Chalcopyrite, Enargite
BuckhornGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerPyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Buena MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerKrennerite, Gold, Sylvanite, Petzite
EmmetGold, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumProducerVein
Fair DayUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Fair Day MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1865
Gladstone, Alice, McKinleyFluorine-Fluorite, GoldOccurrenceGold
Hopewell and RustyGold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allenspark, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. 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
July 1996HailAllenspark-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boulder 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Longhurst Lodge3.6 miles2017
Wild Basin House5.7 miles1988
Wild Basin Ranger Station and House5.7 miles1988
Jamestown Mercantile Building5.8 miles1989
Jamestown Town Hall5.8 miles2003
Jamestown Town Hall (Boundary Increase)5.8 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boulder CountyAll 92 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.