Boulder Elementary School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off UT 51, Boulder, 84716
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
Census division. Escalante
National Register reference number. 85000805 - 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Boulder Elementary School between 1992 and 2018, burning about 20 acres in total. 34 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	34
Debris and open burning	2

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
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	BALANCING ROCK
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	AIRPORT
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	LONG NECK
7 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	BOULDER CREEK
5 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	OGDEN
4 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	MOUNT OGDEN
28 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	SNEAK
20 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	SADIE'S NIPPLE

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Boulder Elementary School: 31 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Vanadium. 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	Recorded
Elenora #1	Uranium, Vanadium	Producer
Big Hollow	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Anhydrite, Gypsum
Big Hollow	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
New Home Bench	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
New Home Bench	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Betty Jack	Uranium	Producer
Black Cat #2	Uranium	Producer
Black Mtn.	Uranium	Producer
Blue Ribbon	Uranium	Producer
Buff	Uranium	Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Coombs Village Site	0.1 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000805 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield County	All 26 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.