Fort Dodge Junior High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Fort Dodge Junior High School, also known as South Junior High, Fair Oaks Middle School and Duncombe Elementary School, is a historic building located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States. The building was constructed in 1931 and continued to serve as a school under its various names until 2013.”
Wikipedia article Fort Dodge Junior High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Webster County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 416 S. 10th St., Fort Dodge, 50501
When was it listed? October 2015
Category. building
City. Fort Dodge city
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 15000730 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fort Dodge Junior High School between 2012 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 August 2013	Smoking	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 April 2014	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2015	Smoking	45 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Fort Dodge Junior High School: 22 past producers, 15 producers, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Fort Dodge Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite	Past Producer
Johnston Clay Works	Clay	Past Producer
Kalo Brick and Tile Co.	Clay	Past Producer
National Gypsum Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite	Producer
U S Gypsum Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite	Producer
Vincent Clay Products Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Fort Dodge Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lehigh Pit & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Northwest Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Dodge, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Dodge	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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

6 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
Vincent House	0.2 miles	1973
Sacred Heart Catholic Church	0.3 miles	2022
Wahkonsa Hotel	0.4 miles	2008
Webster County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1981
First National Bank Building	0.5 miles	2003
Oak Hill Historic District	0.5 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000730 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Webster County	All 15 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.