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Photograph of Maysville School
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Maysville School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Maysville School in Maysville, Colorado, also known as the Maysville Schoolhouse, is a schoolhouse built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”

Wikipedia article Maysville School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 1999 · 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.
  • Address. S of US 50, Maysville, 81201
  • When was it listed? April 1999
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
  • Census division. Salida
  • National Register reference number. 99000484 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Maysville School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 10 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
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking5
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestHOOSIER GULTCH
28 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestGOAT WADI
25 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFront Range District OfficePASS CREEK
18 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeBLANK
17 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestANGEL
13 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChaffee CountyMC CLURE CREEK
30 August 1998Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSQUAW

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Maysville School: 12 past producers, 8 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alaska MineSilver, Gold, LeadPast Producer
CinderellaZinc, Lead, CopperProducerVein
Copper King LodeGold, CopperProducerVein
Flora BellGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Friend ClaimsBeryllium, TantalumOccurrence
Gold Bug ClaimGold, UraniumPast Producer
Gold Eagle MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, MolybdenumOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Sphalerite
Southside South CinderellaZinc, Silver, LeadOccurrenceGalena
Ten BroekGold, Zinc, IronPast Producer
UnknownKyaniteOccurrenceSillimanite

Every working recorded in Chaffee County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maysville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2008: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008HailMaysville-no account filed
July 2007HailMaysville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chaffee 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Poncha Springs Schoolhouse6.6 miles1990
Valley View School8.0 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000484 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chaffee CountyAll 46 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.