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Photograph of Frankville School
Photograph by James M Larson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Frankville School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Frankville School, also known as the Frankville Museum, is a historic structure located in the unincorporated community of Frankville, Iowa, United States. Hopper, replacing an older building from the mid-1850s.”

Wikipedia article Frankville School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Winneshiek County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. State St., Frankville, 52162
  • When was it listed? November 1978
  • Category. building
  • Township. Frankville township
  • National Register reference number. 78001272 - 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

8 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Frankville School between 2013 and 2019, burning about 48 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2019Recreation and ceremony35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesPOSTVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
17 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesPOSTVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
31 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 November 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Frankville School: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Christofferson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Estrem QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Held QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hughes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Livingood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ludlow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sersland-Smorstad QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Winneshiek County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFrankville$50,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFrankville$13,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFrankville$5,500no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFrankville$2,500Power lines and trees were knocked down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindFrankville$2,000Numerous trees were blown down south of Frankville.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindFrankville$2,000A number of trees were blown down in Frankville.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFrankville$2,000A two foot diameter tree and power lines were blown down in Frankville.
June 2007HailFrankville$1,000Also wind gusts hit 50 mph.
June 2014Funnel CloudFrankville-A funnel cloud was sighted just outside of Frankville.
October 2006HailFrankville-no account filed
April 2002HailFrankville-no account filed
May 2000HailFrankville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winneshiek 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Washington Prairie Methodist Church7.0 miles1980
Jacobson Farm7.3 miles1982
Ossian Opera House7.8 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001272 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winneshiek CountyAll 36 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.