Marble High School

Built in 1910 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Marble High School is a school and historical site preserved by the National Register of Historic Places located in Marble, Colorado. It was built in 1910, and is the only surviving building in Marble that utilizes marble in its construction, despite the name of the town.”
Wikipedia article Marble High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Gunnison County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1910, American Craftsman.

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. 412 Main St., Marble, 81623
When was it listed? August 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Marble MPS
Census division. Somerset
When was it built? 1910
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 89000989 - 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

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Marble High School between 2003 and 2018, burning about 2 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/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
11 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	PTX ASSIST 1
9 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
26 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	HUNTER
27 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	YULE CREEK
4 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Marble High School: 17 occurrences, 14 producers, 12 past producers, 11 unknowns. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Marble, Dimension. 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
Aspen-Riverside Group	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Black Eagle	Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver	Producer	Silver
Black Queen Shaft	Silver, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer	1889, 1893
Catalpa Mine	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Catapala	Copper, Zinc, Lead	Producer	Copper, Lead
Chair Creek Tunnel	Beryllium	Past Producer
Copper King Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Evening Star	Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Replacement
Gold Pan Vein	Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Milwaukee	Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc	Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Gunnison County

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 debris flow, 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 7 injuries. 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
July 2006	Lightning	Marble	7 hurt	no account filed
July 2021	Debris Flow	Marble	$25,000	Numerous mud and rockslides occurred near Emerald Lake at the end of Gothic Road. Some slides were smaller than others but the biggest was reported to be about 6 feet deep.
September 1999	Flash Flood	Marble	$15,000	no account filed
August 2023	Flood	Marble	$5,000	Daniels Hill (a section of Gunnison County Road 3) was damaged and unpassable due to flooding from heavy rain. The road remained closed until the following afternoon.
August 2023	Debris Flow	Marble	$5,000	The Lead King Basin Loop Road, a 13-mile loop near Marble that travels through the Lead King Basin, experienced debris flows due to heavy rain from thunderstorms. The road was not accessible.
August 2022	Debris Flow	Marble	$2,500	Multiple debris flows occurred on Forest Service Road 314 in White River National Forest as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. The debris was 18 feet deep in some spots. The road remained closed for several days due to cleanup operations.
August 1997	Flash Flood	Marble	$2,000	no account filed
August 2022	Debris Flow	Marble	$500	A minor mudslide occurred on the south side of the Crystal River by Marble as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms.
August 2022	Debris Flow	Marble	$250	A mudslide occurred as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms near Marble along County Road 3.
June 2024	Debris Flow	Marble	-	A thunderstorm produced heavy rain over the Crystal River Drainage, which caused a mudslide on Highway 133 between mile markers 45 and 46 to the west of Marble, Colorado. Between 0.3 and 0.8 inches of rain was estimated on radar.
May 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Marble	-	A storm chaser traveling along County Road 12 (Kebler Pass) observed a high elevation landspout tornado near the summit of Purple Mountain. The tornado was estimated to be near 12,600 ft and traveled a short distance along the ridge, before dissipating. Snow could be seen blowing around the base of the rotation as it moved across the ridge.
September 2002	Flood	Marble	-	no account filed
August 1999	Flash Flood	Marble	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gunnison 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
Marble Town Hall	under 500 feet	1989
St. Paul's Church	0.2 miles	1989
Marble Mill Site	0.2 miles	1979
William D. Parry House	0.2 miles	1989
Marble City State Bank Building	0.2 miles	1999
Haxby House	0.2 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000989 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gunnison County	All 21 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.