Lebanon School

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Lebanon School in the small community of Lebanon in Montezuma County, Colorado, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Cortez and in the general area of Dolores, was built in 1907 and expanded in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Lebanon School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Montezuma County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1907.

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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 24925 Co. Rd. T, Dolores, 81323
When was it listed? May 1996
Category. building
Census division. Dolores
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 96000543 - 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

109 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Lebanon School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 763 acres in total. 30 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	46
Natural	30
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	SAGEHEN
5 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Montezuma County	not named
30 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Lewis-Arriola Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
26 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	OMEGA
23 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Tres Rios Field Office	LOBATO
22 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Dolores Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
21 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Lewis-Arriola Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
2 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	CAR

Every fire recorded in Montezuma County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lebanon School: 6 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Canon 7	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Dolores Mine	Coal, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Prospect
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Montezuma County

Storms near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dolores, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2023	Flood	Dolores	$50,000	Rapid snowmelt from the Dolores River led to various drainages breaching their banks. This resulted in flooded downtown residential buildings in the town of Dolores. The water also flooded streets, some yards, and school playgrounds. Flood waters did not recede for several days.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dolores	$20,000	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Dolores	-	A severe thunderstorm produced large hail measured to be the size of quarters west-northwest of Dolores.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Dolores	-	Heavy rain from thunderstorms produced minor flooding across Colorado Highway 184 and 27.8 road. Nearby CoCoRaHS rainfall reports ranged from 0.70 to 0.90 of an inch.
May 2015	Funnel Cloud	Dolores	-	A persistent funnel cloud was seen just northeast of Cortez and traveled northeast about four miles before it dissipated over the Summit Ridge area. The funnel clouds was photographed and reported by many people.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dolores	-	An intense thunderstorm produced strong outflow winds which destroyed a farm shed at a location between Mancos and Cortez.
October 2010	Hail	Dolores	-	Hail the size of ping pong balls pelted the area near the Anasazi Heritage Center.
August 2001	Wildfire	Dolores	-	no account filed
October 2001	Wildfire	Dolores	-	no account filed
July 2001	Wildfire	Dolores	-	no account filed
July 1998	Wildfire	Dolores	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montezuma 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
Exon & Rush Meat Market and Mercantile	4.9 miles	2024
Southern Hotel	5.0 miles	1989
Haynie Site	7.3 miles	2017
Ertel Funeral Home	7.5 miles	1995
Montezuma Valley National Bank and Store Building	7.5 miles	2009
Cortez High School	7.7 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000543 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montezuma County	All 21 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.