Built in 1901. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“The Art Building of the Arkansas Valley Fairgrounds in Rocky Ford, Colorado was built in 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Art Building (Rocky Ford, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Otero County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1901.
National Register reference number.96001027- 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
257 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Art Building
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,153 acres in total. 4 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
194
Recreation and ceremony
15
Smoking
14
Debris and open burning
14
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Natural
4
Fireworks
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
18 workings within 5 miles of Art Building: 11 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rocky Ford, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 38 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Very heavy rain fell in a few hours time from just south of Manzanola to about five miles northwest of Rocky Ford near U.S. Highway 50. The resulting flood closed highway 50 for six hours Saturday morning. Widespread flooding occurred from county roads 11 to 16. Many road washouts were reported and damage occurred to two irrigation canals. A residence was destroyed by two foot deep flood waters. The railroad just south of highway 50 was undermined when the trestle abutments washed away. No firm damage amounts were available as of late September.
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
5 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.
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.
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