Poncha Springs Schoolhouse

Built in 1883 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1883, Italianate architecture.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 330 Burnett St., Poncha Springs, 81242
When was it listed? January 1990
Category. building
Census division. Salida
When was it built? 1883
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 89002375 - 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Poncha Springs Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 4 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	75
Natural	19
Recreation and ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Salida Fire Department	UNKNOWN
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Arkansas Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
19 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
18 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	BLANK
1 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	TWIN FIR
8 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
31 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Arkansas Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Poncha Springs Schoolhouse: 21 past producers, 8 occurrences, 5 producers, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Delay Tunnel	Gold	Past Producer
Friend Claims	Beryllium, Tantalum	Occurrence
Polly No 4	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Poncha Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
R D H Mill	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Ben Hill Mine	Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Calcium Mill	Calcium	Past Producer
Colorado Granite Finishing Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Magnuson and Son Calcium Plant	Calcium	Unknown
Monarch Mineral Products	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
Hutchinson Ranch	1.6 miles	1973
Hutchinson Ranch (Boundary Increase)	1.8 miles	2005
Valley View School	2.1 miles	2003
Chaffee County Poor Farm	3.3 miles	1985
Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company Smokestack	3.6 miles	1976
Pedro-Botz House	3.8 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002375 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chaffee County	All 46 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.