# Rock Ridge School

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rock-ridge-school/
- Also known as: District 24; later the Case and Irving school; Cherry School (1913 USGS sheet)
- Kind: Schools
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2681, -104.6984 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

District 24, begun before 1886 on a ridge east of the junction of Russellville Road and Highway 83. A new school of the 1920s had a basement for community meals; the earlier Case school became a granary and burned on June 29, 1998. The Irving school was moved to Cherry Valley in 1952 (county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-206; 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

## Nearby

- [Dumont barn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dumont-barn/): 0.6 mi south
- [Great Divide Grange No. 166](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/great-divide-grange-no-166/): 0.7 mi south
- [Case post office (1897)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/case-post-office-1897/): 0.8 mi southwest
- [Schroyer grave](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/schroyer-grave/): 0.9 mi northeast
- [Frost's Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/frosts-ranch/): 1.0 mi northeast
- [Whittier farm](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/whittier-farm/): 1.0 mi south

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