Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“Coralville Public School, also known as the Fifth Street School, is a historic building located in Coralville, Iowa, United States. This two-story brick structure replaced Coralville's first school building, which was destroyed in a fire.”
Wikipedia article Coralville Public School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 96 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1876.
National Register reference number.74000789- 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
15 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Coralville Public School
between 2006 and 2017, burning about 58 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
7
Debris and open burning
6
Smoking
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Coralville Public School: 5 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Coralville, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 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.
Sometime between 1900 and 1930 CST lightning struck a brand new home in Coralville. The resultant fire destroyed the home and strong winds allowed the flames to spread onto a house nearing completion next door.
The Crandic Railroad embankment along the Iowa River in Coralville, IA failed around 9:01 pm June 12. Flash flooding resulted in sections of Coralville, IA along 1st Avenue and Highway 6.
Lightning struck a house in Coralville, IA during the late morning hours of August 23rd. Time estimated. Firefighters responded at 11:30 am and had the fire under control by 11:45 am. Fire and smoke damage was confined to the lower level of the home.
Heavy rains of 1 to 2.5 inches in a short amount of time resulted in flash flooding of some streets near the intersection of Melrose Ave. and Mormon Trek Blvd. in Iowa City. The location in question is a low spot in the road that is prone to flooding. This report was relayed by a trained spotter.
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.
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.
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