Pipe Line School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Address. 101 16.5 S Rd., Glade Park, 81523
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. building
Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
Census division. Glade Park-Gateway
National Register reference number. 99000483 - 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Pipe Line School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 79 started naturally. None 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
Natural	79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	OAK HILL
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	TIMBER RDG
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	CLARK WSH2
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	PAYNE WASH
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	L DOLORES
3 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	GRAHAM
29 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	GORES RNCH
21 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Colorado National Monument	LISAFIRE

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pipe Line School: 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Sulfur. 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
Kruckenburg Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Unknown	Sulfur	Occurrence
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this property

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glade Park, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2016: 4 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2016	Lightning	Glade Park	1 hurt	Lightning struck a girl riding an ATV near Glade Park. The girl was injured but survived.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Glade Park	-	Water was seen running in excess of a foot deep through normally dry washes along Little Park Road.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Glade Park	-	Thunderstorms near Glade Park produced rainfall amounts near an inch in less than a half hour.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Glade Park	-	no account filed
September 2005	Funnel Cloud	Glade Park	-	no account filed
September 2005	Heavy Rain	Glade Park	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Glade Park	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Glade Park	-	no account filed
August 2005	Flash Flood	Glade Park	-	no account filed
June 2003	Heavy Rain	Glade Park	-	no account filed
June 2002	Wildfire	Glade Park	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Glade Park	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Glade Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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
Rim Rock Drive Historic District	6.0 miles	1994
Serpents Trail	6.0 miles	1994
Devils Kitchen Picnic Shelter	6.3 miles	1994
Saddlehorn Utility Area Historic District	7.2 miles	1994
Saddlehorn Caretaker's House and Garage	7.2 miles	1994
Colorado National Monument Visitor Center Complex	7.3 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000483 in Record Group 79.
Mesa County	All 33 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.