# Jarre Creek School

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/jarre-creek-school/
- Also known as: Bear Canyon School; District 5
- Kind: Schools
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3983, -105.0071 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-20

## What we know

District 5 from about 1874; a log-cabin school from 1888, replaced in 1908 by a 20-by-30-foot frame building a mile east, used until the early 1950s (county map, S-0123). It merged with the Sedalia school in March 1951 (Weber and Schlupp, ch. 43, Boyd, p. 248; S-0262).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-173; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123
- S-0262: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0262

## Nearby

- [Campbell Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/campbell-cemetery/): 1.9 mi northwest
- [Lehigh](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lehigh/): 2.5 mi northwest
- [Bear Canyon Agricultural District](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/bear-canyon-agricultural-district/): 3.0 mi northeast
- [Waterhouse Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/waterhouse-ranch/): 3.1 mi northwest
- [Oaklands Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/oaklands-ranch/): 3.2 mi east
- [Keystone](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/keystone/): 3.2 mi northeast

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.