Pleasant Hill School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Pleasant Hill School, also known as the Little Red School House, is a historic building located north of Lineville in rural Wayne County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1881 on land that had been purchased for educational purposes in 1873, and it housed a one-room school until 1958.”
Wikipedia article Pleasant Hill School (Lineville, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1975 · 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. 3 mi. N of Lineville on U.S. 65, Lineville, 50147
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Township. Grand River township
National Register reference number. 75000701 - 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

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill School between 2008 and 2017, burning about 208 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	2
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
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 November 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	ALLERTON FD

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lineville, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 1993	Hail	Lineville	$50,000	A cold front dropped southeast across Iowa during the middle part of the day on the 2nd. Thunderstorm fired up around noon along the front and became severe with high winds and hail. Marble-size hail occurred over the southwest corner of the state in Shenandoah. A short time later, quarter-size and slightly larger hail was reported east of Mt. Ayr. Gusty winds had moved through the city with one large tree downed at the court house, along with other scattered reports of damage. The storm produced about an inch of rain in 20 minutes. In Taylor county, high winds blew out a window of a house in Bedford. Winds also gusted to 55 to 60 mph in Gravity along with marble- to golfball-size hail. The combination of winds and hail broke several windows in houses around town. As the storms progressed farther south, winds of at least 70 mph blew through the town of Mt. Ayr as a second storm hit the city. The winds tore 3,300 square feet of roofing material from the high school, causing about $80,000 in damage. Around the same time, high winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Leon. Also in Decatur County, high winds caused widespread damage in the city of Lamoni and overturned a tractor-semitrailer truck. In Davis City, high winds knocked down trees and damaged a mobile home. In Wayne County, hail the size of half dollars combined with gusty winds broke windows out of a house in Lineville.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lineville	$50,000	A cold front dropped southeast across Iowa during the middle part of the day on the 2nd. Thunderstorm fired up around noon along the front and became severe with high winds and hail. Marble-size hail occurred over the southwest corner of the state in Shenandoah. A short time later, quarter-size and slightly larger hail was reported east of Mt. Ayr. Gusty winds had moved through the city with one large tree downed at the court house, along with other scattered reports of damage. The storm produced about an inch of rain in 20 minutes. In Taylor county, high winds blew out a window of a house in Bedford. Winds also gusted to 55 to 60 mph in Gravity along with marble- to golfball-size hail. The combination of winds and hail broke several windows in houses around town. As the storms progressed farther south, winds of at least 70 mph blew through the town of Mt. Ayr as a second storm hit the city. The winds tore 3,300 square feet of roofing material from the high school, causing about $80,000 in damage. Around the same time, high winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Leon. Also in Decatur County, high winds caused widespread damage in the city of Lamoni and overturned a tractor-semitrailer truck. In Davis City, high winds knocked down trees and damaged a mobile home. In Wayne County, hail the size of half dollars combined with gusty winds broke windows out of a house in Lineville.
June 2014	Hail	Lineville	$15,000	no account filed
June 2014	Flash Flood	Lineville	$10,000	At least 10 inches of water over a road with deeper water over other area roads.
March 2006	Hail	Lineville	$10,000	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Lineville	$5,000	Trained spotter reported at least half dollar sized hail, and noted some may be larger.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lineville	$5,000	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Lineville	$3,000	Hail up to quarter size fell along Douglas St.
May 2004	Hail	Lineville	$1,000	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Lineville	-	Damage to tin buildings in town. Trailers shifted on foundation. Tree limbs down and some trees uprooted. Delayed report, time estimated from radar.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lineville	-	Post office reported large tree branches down throughout town and power remains out at the time.
June 2019	Hail	Lineville	-	Public reported quarter sized hail.
April 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Lineville	-	Only a brief tornado touchdown with no significant damage.
June 2013	Hail	Lineville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000701 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 4 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.
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.