Curtis School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Orchard Rd. in Greenwood Village, Colorado was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Curtis School (Greenwood Village, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Arapahoe County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 2349 E. Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village, 80121
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Southwest Arapahoe
National Register reference number. 92000808 - 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

710 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 710 fires within 5 miles of Curtis School between 1996 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 12 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	589
Smoking	36
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	13
Arson/incendiarism	12
Fireworks	8
Debris and open burning	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
9 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	South Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
4 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Littleton Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	ENGLEWOOD
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Curtis School: 14 occurrences, 13 producers, 9 unknowns, 1 past producer. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Big Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Occurrence	1858
Big Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Unknown
Cherry Creek Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Little Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Central Construction Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cherry Creek Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clarke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Englewood Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Flanagan,Walt & Co.Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Arapahoe 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
Hopkins Farm	2.2 miles	2007
Owen Estate	2.6 miles	1999
Maitland Estate	2.6 miles	1998
Knight-Wood House	2.6 miles	2004
Foster-Buell Estate	2.6 miles	1998
Little Estate	2.8 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000808 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arapahoe County	All 26 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.