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Photograph of Wilson District No. 7 School
Photograph by Joni Yager, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wilson District #7 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Wilson District No. 7 School, also known as the O'Meara Schoolhouse, is an historic structure located in rural Clinton County, Iowa, United States near the town of Delmar. The one-room school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”

Wikipedia article Wilson District No. 7 School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2004 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1507 270th Ave., Delmar, 52037
  • When was it listed? December 2004
  • Category. building
  • Township. Bloomfield township
  • Architectural style. vernacular architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04001320 - 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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wilson District #7 School between 2009 and 2014, burning about 20 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wilson District #7 School: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Petersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delmar, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2004Tornado (F1)Delmar$30,000Rated low end F1;winds estimated at 75 mph.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindDelmar$30,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDelmar$20,000Winds destroyed a large barn killing one of four steers inside.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDelmar$5,000trees and power lines down
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDelmar$5,000Several trees were reported down in the town.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDelmar$5,000A stopped semi was blown over near the junction of highway 136 & U.S. 61.
August 1994HailDelmar$5,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindDelmar$3,000no account filed
May 2024HailDelmar-Report from Mping.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Trees and powerlines blown down in Delmar, Iowa.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Several trees were snapped in Delmar.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindDelmar-A trained spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH.
August 2018Tornado (EF0)Delmar-An EF-0 tornado caused damage to soybeans and trees along its half mile path. A trained spotter report and videos were used to determine the time of the tornado. The peak estimated winds were 65 MPH.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Law enforcement observed a semi-truck overturned.
June 2011HailDelmar-Quarter sized hail fell in Delmar, IA at 718 pm CDT June 15.
June 2011HailDelmar-Quarter sized hail continued to fall in Delmar, IA at 721 pm CDT June 15. In addition, heavy rains produced some minor street flooding.
June 2008HailDelmar-Quarter-sized hail fell just east of Delmar, IA at 9:06 am June 12.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindDelmar-Several trees blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDelmar-no account filed
June 2011HailDelmar-no account filed
May 2002HailDelmar-no account filed
March 1998Funnel CloudDelmar-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindDelmar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Delmar Calaboose3.5 miles1981
Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul & Pacific Depot- Delmar3.6 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001320 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton CountyAll 33 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.