First National Bank of Haxtun

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The First National Bank of Haxtun building, at 145 S. Colorado Ave. in Haxtun, Colorado was built in 1917.”
Wikipedia article First National Bank of Haxtun, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 1986 · 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. 145 S. Colorado Ave., Haxtun, 80731
When was it listed? July 1986
Category. building
Census division. Haxtun
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86001454 - 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

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of First National Bank of Haxtun between 2011 and 2017, burning about 44 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	3

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
25 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	HAXTUN
3 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	HAXTUN
5 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Haxtun Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of First National Bank of Haxtun: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

60 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haxtun, the town this property stands in, in 71 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 42 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Hail	Haxtun	$20,000	A severe thunderstorm caused extensive damage to wheat and corn crops in the immediate area. Out of 104,000 planted acres of wheat in Phillips County; 3,000 were destroyed. Sixty thousand additional acres were damaged. Out of 102,000 planted acres of corn in the county; 2,000 were completely destroyed and 20,500 were damaged.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	$20,000	Strong thunderstorm winds downed a tree which crashed on to a home. The force of the blow punctured a hole in the ceiling, and knocked drywall into the laundry room.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	$5,500	Wet microburst, straight-line winds estimated in excess of 75 knots ripped through the Haxtun vicinity as a second round of thunderstorms moved through the area. The winds flipped two corner irrigation sytems on to the adjacent road, toppled a few grain bins and removed some shingles off of a roof. A 70-foot evergreen tree had been toppled along with some smaller trees.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	Macroburst winds downed power lines and damaged several buildings.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	Damaging winds from a severe thunderstorm knocked down numerous trees and power lines.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Haxtun	-	A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Haxtun	-	A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
June 2000	Tornado (F0)	Haxtun	-	A small tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
August 1999	Flash Flood	Haxtun	-	Thunderstorms producing heavy rain, with storm totals from 3 to 6 inches, caused flooding and flash flooding problems southeast of Haxtun, near the Yuma county line. Several county roads were washed out with widespread field flooding reported. Heavy rain coupled with small hail, stripped corn and sunflower crops in the area.
May 1998	Hail	Haxtun	-	Torrential hail covered Highway 59, up to 10 inches deep in spots, for a quarter mile stretch near the Phillips/Yuma County Line. Snowplows had to be called out to clear the highway. Substantial crop damage was also reported in the area, although no estimate of the damage was available.
June 1995	Tornado (F0)	Haxtun	-	A brief tornado touched down on open land.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Haxtun	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Haxtun	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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

3 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
Shirley Hotel	under 500 feet	2002
Evergreen Corner Rural Historic District	6.3 miles	2013
Harms Farm	7.8 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001454 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips County	All 10 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.