Canton School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Canton School is a historic one-room schoolhouse located in the unincorporated community of Canton, Iowa, United States. This school building was built in 1877 of locally quarried, roughly-dressed limestone, laid in a random ashlar pattern.”
Wikipedia article Canton School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 77 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1979 · 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. South St., Canton, 52309
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. building
Township. Brandon township
National Register reference number. 79000898 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Canton School between 2007 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Canton School: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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	Recorded
Gillespie Farm Diggings	Lead	Past Producer	Galena
Mineral Creek Diggings	Lead	Past Producer	Galena
Occurrence	Lead	Occurrence	Galena
Canton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Doll Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Judas Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mo-Keta Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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

5 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
Central School	2.3 miles	1992
Lubben, Henry, House, Smokehouse and Springhouse	5.6 miles	1992
Mrs. Margaret Sieben House	6.0 miles	1992
Maquoketa Caves State Park Historic District	6.9 miles	1991
Mill Rock School	7.8 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000898 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 77 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.