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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Farmers State Bank Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 300 Main St., Fort Morgan, 80701
- When was it listed? September 1990
- Category. building
- Census division. Fort Morgan
- National Register reference number. 90001422 - 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
121 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Farmers State Bank Building between 2011 and 2020, burning about 60 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 | 79 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 35 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Fort Morgan Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Fort Morgan Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT MORGAN |
| 31 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Morgan Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 29 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 28 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT MORGAN |
| 27 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT MORGAN |
| 27 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT MORGAN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Farmers State Bank Building: 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Morgan Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Clay | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand | |
| Westoff Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Morgan, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Morgan | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused major damage to several farms north of Fort Morgan. The winds destroyed five grain bins, and damaged several buildings, including two homes. The winds also toppled a semi-trailer on Interstate 76 near Fort Morgan. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Morgan | $500 | A severe thunderstorm rumbled across portions of Weld and Morgan Counties. Spotters reported golf-ball size hail fell east of Kersey (37 miles east southeast of Fort Collins). Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and toppled power poles in Fort Morgan and near Jackson Reservoir (18 miles northwest of Fort Morgan). |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Morgan | - | Thunderstorm winds fanned grassfires in the Brighton and Fort Morgan areas. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Fort Morgan | - | Hail up to tennis ball-size caused extensive crop damage southwest of Fort Morgan. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Morgan | - | A severe thunderstorm rumbled across portions of Weld and Morgan Counties. Spotters reported golf-ball size hail fell east of Kersey (37 miles east southeast of Fort Collins). Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and toppled power poles in Fort Morgan and near Jackson Reservoir (18 miles northwest of Fort Morgan). |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Fort Morgan | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Morgan | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Morgan | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Fort Morgan | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | US Post Office-Fort Morgan Main | under 500 feet | 1986 |
 | Morgan County Courthouse and Jail | 0.1 miles | 2002 |
 | Fort Morgan City Hall | 0.2 miles | 1995 |
 | Fort Morgan State Armory | 0.2 miles | 2004 |
 | Sherman Street Historic Residential District | 0.5 miles | 1987 |
 | Lincoln School | 0.6 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90001422 in Record Group 79. |
| Morgan County | All 15 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.