Photograph of Community Building — Photograph by Kepper66, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Columbus Junction School 1882-1920

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Community Building, also known as Columbus Junction School 1882-1920, is a historic building located in Columbus Junction, Iowa, United States. It houses the Columbus Community Heritage Museum, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Community Building (Columbus Junction, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Louisa County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 122 E. Maple St., Columbus Junction, 52738
When was it listed? August 1973
Category. building
Township. Columbus City township
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 73000735 - 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.

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 Columbus Junction School 1882-1920: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Columbus Junction Underground Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Fredonia Sand Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Louisa County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Columbus Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Columbus Junction	$5,000	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Columbus Junction	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Louisa 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Gipple's Quarry Bridge	5.6 miles	1998
	County Line Bridge	6.5 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000735 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Louisa County	All 8 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.
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.