Missouri Heights School

Coordinates: 39°25′56″N 107°08′14″W / 39.43222°N 107.13722°W / 39.43222; -107.13722 (Missouri Heights School)
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Missouri Heights School
Missouri Heights School is located in Colorado
Missouri Heights School
Nearest cityCarbondale, Colorado
Coordinates39°25′56″N 107°08′14″W / 39.43222°N 107.13722°W / 39.43222; -107.13722 (Missouri Heights School)
Arealess than one acre
Built1917
MPSRural School Buildings in Colorado MPS
NRHP reference No.99001145[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 23, 1999

The Missouri Heights School, in Garfield County, Colorado near Carbondale, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]

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."[2]

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.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Ron Sladek; Willa Soncarty (May 21, 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Missouri Heights School / 5GF.2735". National Park Service. Retrieved April 14, 2019. With accompanying 21 photos