Logan Center School No.5

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Logan Center School No.5 is a historic one-room schoolhouse located south of Dickens, Iowa, United States. The property was purchased for $20 in 1894, and the schoolhouse was built the following year.”
Wikipedia article Logan Center School No.5, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of 420th St. and 310th Ave., Dickens, 51358
When was it listed? January 2001
Category. building
Township. Logan township
National Register reference number. 00001652 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Logan Center School No.5 between 2011 and 2019, burning about 78 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 April 2019	Debris and open burning	33 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2019	Debris and open burning	33 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Wetland Management District	ELK LAKE
3 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	440TH ST. AND 310TH AVE, IA

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Logan Center School No.5: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Eckley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ruthven Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dickens, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 22 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and also damaged a roof.
April 2025	Hail	Dickens	-	Hail was mostly dime to quarter sized, but some stones were as large as ping pong balls.
June 2024	Hail	Dickens	-	Dime to quarter size hail fell, along with 1.35 inches of rain in 22 minutes.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	Numerous cottonwood trees were uprooted and powerlines down in the area. Winds were estimated from 65 to 70 mph.
July 2020	Hail	Dickens	-	Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	Winds estimated to around 60 mph accompanied ping-pong ball size hail.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	Tree limbs up to 4 inch diameter breaking.
July 2018	Hail	Dickens	-	Hail up to half dollar size along with strong winds broke windows in a home and stripped leaves from trees. Branches up to an estimated inch in diameter also broken from trees.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few branches blown down.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. The winds were accompanied by rainfall of 3.15 inches.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Dickens	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several roads, including Highway 18 near the eastern county line.
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Dickens	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
May 2004	Hail	Dickens	-	Large hail damaged vehicles and windows. The amount of damage was not known.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Dickens	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2004	Tornado (F1)	Dickens	-	A tornado damaged crops, trees, and power lines.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Dickens	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Dickens	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2003	Hail	Dickens	-	Large hail covered the ground. The hail, combined with winds gusting to 55 mph, damaged corn and bean crops ion the area, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
June 2024	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
October 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dickens	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Dickens	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001652 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 9 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.