BlockFrom the record
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Teller County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Florissant School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2009 Co. Rd. 31, Florissant, 80816
- When was it listed? October 1990
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
- Census division. Divide
- National Register reference number. 90001503 - 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
227 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Florissant School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 247 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 8 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 | 145 |
| Natural | 43 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Four Mile Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florissant Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 20 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 15 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 14 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 1 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Florissant School: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Line | Gold | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Black Cloud Mine | Feldspar, Quartz, Thorium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium, REE | Producer | Apatite, Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Fluorite, Microlite, Pyrochlore, Quartz, Tantalite | |
| Black Cloud Quarry | Feldspar, Beryllium, Quartz | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Mountain Mine | Copper, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Crystal Peak Topaz Prospects | Gemstone, Feldspar | Prospect | ||
| Crystal Peak Topaz Prospects | Gemstone, Semiprecious Gemstone, Tin | Prospect | 1865 | |
| Florissant Area | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Teller Pegmatite | Feldspar, REE | Past Producer | ||
| Teller Pegmatite Claim | REE, Fluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Beryllium, Thorium | Producer | Allanite, Gadolinite, Microcline, Molybdenite, Monazite, Orthoclase, Quartz, Xenotime | |
| Blue Mountain Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite |
Storms near this property
13 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florissant, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 wildfire, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 4 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 2002 | Wildfire | Florissant | 2 hurt, $6,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Wildfire | Florissant | 2 hurt, $6,000,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Wildfire | Florissant | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Dust Devil | Florissant | $15,000 | EF1 damage was done to the building. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Florissant | - | Report of flooding over us highway 24 east of Florissant. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Florissant | - | A short-lived tornado occurred just south of Florissant. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Florissant | - | A tornado occurred in eastern Park County, caused damage in Lake George, then crossed into Teller County and uprooted several dozen trees. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Florissant | - | Water and mud flows over US Highway 24 over 6 inches deep impeded traffic and caused a brief closure for clean up. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Florissant | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains and subsequent flooding caused damage of roads in the Turkey Creek Basin of Teller County. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Florissant | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Florissant | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Florissant | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Florissant | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Twin Creek Ranch | 0.5 miles | 1997 |
 | Hornbek House | 1.7 miles | 1981 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90001503 in Record Group 79. |
| Teller County | All 11 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.