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Photograph of Crowley School
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Crowley School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Crowley School, at 301 Main St. in Crowley, Colorado, was built in 1914. Also known as the Crowley County Heritage Center, it is a Renaissance Revival style school building.”

Wikipedia article Crowley School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Crowley 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. 301 Main St., Crowley, 81033
  • When was it listed? July 1999
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Ordway
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 99000897 - 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Crowley School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Natural1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
6 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrowley Countynot named
26 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
19 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOlney Springs Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
31 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCROWLEY

Every fire recorded in Crowley County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crowley School: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Crowley County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crowley, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 13 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2016Flash FloodCrowley-Heavy rain produced flash flooding and high water in the Crowley and Ordway areas.
October 1997Tornado (F0)Crowley-A brief tornado was reported by a Crowley county sheriffs officer on the outskirts of Crowley. There was no known damage. The brief, weak tornado was associated with the line of thunderstorms to the west of several supercell storms.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Crowley-Brief tornado touchdown reported by the Department of Corrections caused no known damage.
September 2016HailCrowley-no account filed
July 2016HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2014HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2010HailCrowley-no account filed
May 2007HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2007HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2007HailCrowley-no account filed
June 2005HailCrowley-no account filed
September 2001HailCrowley-no account filed
September 2001HailCrowley-no account filed
July 1998HailCrowley-no account filed
July 1996HailCrowley-no account filed
May 1995HailCrowley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crowley 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000897 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crowley CountyAll 1 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.