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One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Plummer School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2524 E. Vine Dr., Fort Collins, 80524
- When was it listed? April 1999
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
- Census division. Fort Collins
- National Register reference number. 99000485 - 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
422 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 422 fires within 5 miles of Plummer School between 2003 and 2019, burning about 876 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 were 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 | 357 |
| Smoking | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Eaton Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
| 26 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 22 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | FORT COLLINS |
| 19 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Poudre Fire Authority | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Plummer School: 14 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphite Nos 1 To 7 | Graphite | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Boettcher Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Colo Lien Company | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Fort Collins | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| State Lease | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Adams Transit Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Barker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Barker Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cowan Cci Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Collins, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1996 | Lightning | Fort Collins | 3 hurt | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Fort Collins | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Fort Collins | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Fort Collins | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Fort Collins | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Fort Collins | $5,000 | Hail up to baseball-size caused considerable damage to buildings and vehicles, as well as crops, over portions of Larimer County. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Collins | - | Lightning struck a south Fort Collins house leaving a gaping hole in the roof. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Fort Collins | - | Thunderstorm winds downed two large cottonwoods in West Fort Collins. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Collins | - | Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field northwest of Fort Collins. No damage or injuries was reported. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Collins | - | Thunderstorm winds gusted to 58 mph (50 knots) north of Fort Collins. |
| September 1996 | Flood | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Collins | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Great Western Sugar Company Effluent Flume and Bridge | 1.5 miles | 2014 |
 | Harmony Mill | 2.2 miles | 1995 |
 | Fort Collins Armory | 2.3 miles | 2002 |
 | Mosman House | 2.4 miles | 1978 |
 | Old Town Fort Collins | 2.4 miles | 1978 |
 | McHugh-Andrews House | 2.5 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99000485 in Record Group 79. |
| Larimer County | All 110 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.