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Photograph of Stonington First Methodist-Episcopal Church
Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stonington First Methodist-Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Stonington First Methodist Episcopal Church is a church at 48854 County Road X in Walsh, Colorado. It was built in 1917 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”

Wikipedia article Stonington First Methodist-Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Baca County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Stonington First Methodist--Episcopal Church - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 48854 Co. Rd. X, Stonington, 81090
  • When was it listed? March 1996
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Walsh
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 96000272 - 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Stonington First Methodist-Episcopal Church between 1993 and 1995, burning about 249 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 June 1994Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresBaca County Officenot named
4 May 1993Recreation and ceremony140 acresBaca County Officenot named
23 April 1994Natural3.0 acresBaca County Officenot named
11 March 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
6 February 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
6 February 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
26 February 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
12 November 1993Recreation and ceremony100 acresBaca County Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Baca County

Storms near this property

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonington, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 27 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindStonington$5,000no account filed
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Stonington$3,000A short-lived tornado struck a windmill in open country of southeast Baca County.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStonington$2,000A pole barn was damaged.
May 2015LightningStonington$1,500Three horses were killed by lightning.
August 2025Flash FloodStonington-Flooding on Hwy 160 near Walsh. Flooding reported at Walsh Health Center.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindStonington-Mesonet station dw6957 at Walsh reported 64mph wind gust.
July 2022Heavy RainStonington-Heavy rainfall of 1.54 inches.
June 2019HailStonington-Report of ping pong ball size hail along Hwy 160 at the Colorado and Kansas state line.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStonington-Near Stonington.
September 2012HailStonington-Hail covered the ground to a depth of 2 inches.
June 2022HailStonington-no account filed
May 2017HailStonington-no account filed
May 2017HailStonington-no account filed
June 2017HailStonington-no account filed
June 2017HailStonington-no account filed
June 2017HailStonington-no account filed
June 2015HailStonington-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStonington-no account filed
July 2015HailStonington-no account filed
May 2015HailStonington-no account filed
July 2015HailStonington-no account filed
July 2015HailStonington-no account filed
June 2013HailStonington-no account filed
July 2011HailStonington-no account filed
May 2010Funnel CloudStonington-no account filed
May 2010Funnel CloudStonington-no account filed
May 2010HailStonington-no account filed
May 2010Funnel CloudStonington-no account filed
August 2008HailStonington-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStonington-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindStonington-no account filed
June 2006HailStonington-no account filed
June 2004HailStonington-no account filed
May 2004HailStonington-no account filed
June 2004HailStonington-no account filed
April 2001HailStonington-no account filed
July 2001HailStonington-no account filed
July 1999HailStonington-no account filed
June 1997HailStonington-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Stonington-no account filed
July 1996HailStonington-no account filed
June 1996HailStonington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baca 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000272 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baca CountyAll 3 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.
  • 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.