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One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dumont School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 150 Co. Rd. 260, Dumont, 80436
- When was it listed? March 1996
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
- Census division. Georgetown
- National Register reference number. 96000201 - 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
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Dumont School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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 | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | UTE CREEK |
| 12 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | WHITE HORSE |
| 9 August 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | BALD MOUNTAIN |
| 8 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | MAD CREEK |
| 7 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | DEVIL |
| 25 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | ST MARY'S |
| 2 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | LAWSON |
| 19 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Clear Creek County Office | CCX 669 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 1,027 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1,027 workings within 5 miles of Dumont School: 866 past producers, 68 occurrences, 65 producers, 22 unknowns. 67 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 394357 | Silver, Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Alma-Lincoln Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Uranium | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Enargite, Galena, Polybasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Gold, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Covellite | |
| Alpha | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Angeline | Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver | Producer | Vein | |
| Anglo Saxon Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Anglo-Saxon Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Atlantic & Brighton | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Bachus Group | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Bellevue-Rochester | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, Zinc | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite | |
| Black Bear Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dumont, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2013: 2 hail. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mint Saloon | 4.2 miles | 1993 |
 | Peck House | 4.2 miles | 1993 |
 | Hose House No. 2 | 4.4 miles | 1998 |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church | 4.9 miles | 1998 |
 | Idaho Springs Downtown Commercial District | 4.9 miles | 1984 |
 | Bryan Hose House | 5.0 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96000201 in Record Group 79. |
| Clear Creek County | All 24 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.