Methodist Episcopal Church of Montrose

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Methodist Episcopal Church of Montrose, also known as the United Methodist Church of Montrose, is a historic church in Montrose, Colorado, United States. It was designed circa 1909 as an Akron Plan church by Thomas P.”
Wikipedia article Methodist Episcopal Church of Montrose, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Montrose 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. 19 S. Park Ave., Montrose, 81401
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. building
Census division. Montrose
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
Architect. Thomas P. Barber
National Register reference number. 99001407 - 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

477 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 477 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Montrose between 1993 and 2020, burning about 811 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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	341
Debris and open burning	38
Smoking	32
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Montrose Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Montrose Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Montrose Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Montrose Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Montrose Fire Protection District	not named
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Montrose Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Montrose: 11 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
Clay Pit	Clay	Unknown
Poughkeepsie Mill	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Dolores Placer	Gold	Past Producer
Good Bye Dan	Gold	Past Producer
Placer	Gold	Past Producer
Red Canon	Gold	Past Producer
Corey Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Montrose County

Storms near this property

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montrose, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 5 flood, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2004	Lightning	Montrose	1 killed	no account filed
June 2024	Lightning	Montrose	$500,000	One of several strong to severe thunderstorms that passed through the city of Montrose produced a bolt of lightning that struck a house south of town. This then set the house on fire, eventually destroying it.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$20,000	A microburst traversed a section of the town of Montrose, breaking off numerous large branches and snapping off some trees. Loose objects such as picnic tables, chairs, and barbecue grills were blown over or tossed around. It took three days for the City of Montrose to clean up all of the debris on sidewalks and streets.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Montrose	$20,000	no account filed
August 2010	Flash Flood	Montrose	$10,000	A ten foot high and 30 foot wide wall of water came roaring down normally dry Tappan Wash and went out of its banks in places, including yards of residences as well as a section of Dave Wood Road. A person hiking up the wash narrowly escaped the wall of water by quickly climbing up the wash embankment. Culverts and irrigation canals were clogged with debris which included logs and a large amount of personal property. Some of the personal property items were later found downstream. A camper trailer in a yard was knocked over and damaged by the flood waters, while a nearby trailer was picked up and carried a short distance away.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$10,000	no account filed
July 1999	Flash Flood	Montrose	$10,000	no account filed
July 2022	Flood	Montrose	$5,000	The culverts backed up as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. This resulted in several inches of water and some embedded debris spilling over onto Racine and Sunshine Roads in Montrose.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$5,000	Severe thunderstorms rumbled across portions of western and northwestern Colorado. The winds toppled a trailer home north of Montrose and blew over a shed in Rangely (61 miles north of Grand Junction).
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds toppled several trees Montrose. One tree fell onto a residence, causing damage.
April 2023	Flood	Montrose	$4,000	Rapid snowmelt resulted in portions of Dave Wood Road to be washed out from flooding.
April 2023	Flood	Montrose	$2,000	As a result of rapid snowmelt, a portion of Spring Canyon Road in Montrose County was closed due to flooding.
August 2009	Lightning	Montrose	$1,000	Lightning struck a power substation on the north side of Montrose during the early morning hours, causing minor damage This caused the electrical power to be down for nearly 1400 residences in northern Montrose County north of the town of Montrose for about 90 minutes.
August 2022	Flood	Montrose	-	Localized flooding occurred 6 miles southwest of Montrose as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. 1.25 inches of rain fell in an hour.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	-	Collapsing thunderstorms brought strong wind gusts estimated at 55 to 65 mph to Montrose resulting in trees being blown over and damage to a car in town.
July 2019	Flood	Montrose	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the city of Montrose which resulted in some minor street flooding above the crown of the road on North 5th Street. Radar estimated rainfall rates of 0.25 to 0.50 inches per hour.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Montrose	-	WA total of 0.85 of an inch of rain fell within 30 minutes.
May 2009	Funnel Cloud	Montrose	-	Numerous eyewitnesses, including a local TV station reporter, observed and photographed a funnel cloud north of Montrose.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Montrose	-	Heavy rain producing thunderstorms caused a flash flood which deposited mud, rocks, and debris up to 2 feet deep onto a 30 foot wide section of 175 Road at the bottom of the East Portal near Crystal Dam.
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Montrose	-	no account filed
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Montrose	-	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Montrose	-	no account filed
October 2004	Funnel Cloud	Montrose	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Montrose	-	no account filed
July 2004	Funnel Cloud	Montrose	-	no account filed
September 2003	Heavy Rain	Montrose	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Montrose	-	no account filed
April 1998	Funnel Cloud	Montrose	-	no account filed
September 1997	Funnel Cloud	Montrose	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montrose 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
Montrose Masonic Temple, Lodge No. 63	under 500 feet	2004
Montrose City Hall	0.1 miles	1982
J. V. Lathrop House	0.1 miles	1988
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge	0.2 miles	2004
Knights of Pythias (KP) Building	0.2 miles	2024
Montrose County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001407 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montrose County	All 28 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.