The 1906 Yellow Creek Schoolhouse merits inclusion in the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties as a representative of rural schools in Rio Blanco County during the first half of the twentieth century. It served as the education center of school age children of the northern Rio Blanco County area for nearly forty years. Similar to other rural schools, the Yellow Creek Schoolhouse building also served as a social center for local residents, likely including families with pupils as well as those without children. Events such as school Christmas programs were well-attended and often anticipated by the local community. The schoolhouse also hosted at least one wedding. The small building is also a great example of the one-room schoolhouse building type. School designers and builders relied on function-based simplicity and easily accessed building materials for rural schools. This led to extensive use of wood, either as logs, or dimensioned lumber. In the case of this schoolhouse, logs were used for the original walls, making it somewhat unique for rural schools in Colorado. Yellow Creek Schoolhouse demonstrates all these characteristics being a log and lumber building with imported metal siding and roofing applied at a later date.