Prairie Grove School

Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“Prairie Grove School is a historic building located northwest of West Burlington in rural Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. This was the third school building for Prairie Grove.”
Wikipedia article Prairie Grove School (Des Moines County, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Des Moines County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1879.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 13598 Beaverdale Rd., W. Burlington, 52655
When was it listed? May 2019
Category. building
Township. Flint River township
When was it built? 1879
National Register reference number. 100003973 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Prairie Grove School in 2018, burning about 180 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
Debris and open burning	1

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
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	180 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Des Moines 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 Prairie Grove School: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Des Moines 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Flint River Bridge	2.2 miles
Allen, Robert and Catharine (Ripley), House	5.3 miles	2025
Baptist Church	6.0 miles	1977
Aspen Grove Cemetery Historic District	7.7 miles	2022
Dennis Melcher Melcher Pottery and House	7.8 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003973 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Des Moines County	All 35 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.