Missouri Heights School

Cty Rd. 102, 0.5 mi. E of jct. with Cty Rd. 100, Carbondale, Colorado. County/parish: Garfield.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 23, 1999. NRIS 99001145.

4 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • 5GF.2735

From Wikipedia:

Missouri Heights School

The Missouri Heights School, in Garfield County, Colorado near Carbondale, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

The 26 by 44 feet (7.9 m × 13.4 m) school was built in 1917. It is located at an elevation of 6,950 feet (2,120 m) "in a rolling open alpine plateau area known since the late 1800s as Missouri Heights. Surrounded by cattle range and scrubland thick with sagebrush, the Missouri Heights School property includes a school building, a teacherage, two outhouses and a coal shed."

It is located on County Road 102, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of its junction with County Road 100, and is about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of the town of Carbondale.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84126559

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