Beach School

Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Beach School is a historic building located northwest of Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. Because school district lines had been redrawn, students in this area were forced to attend classes in a building some distance away.”
Wikipedia article Beach School (Mount Vernon, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 121 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1892.

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. NW of Mount Vernon off US 30, Mount Vernon, 52314
When was it listed? September 1982
Category. building
Township. Linn township
When was it built? 1892
National Register reference number. 82002630 - 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Beach School between 2009 and 2014, burning about 35 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
9 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2014	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1750 YEISLEY RD., LINN TWP, IOWA

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Beach School: 6 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
East Marion Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bowser Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Decious Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Emmonds Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Paralta Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Thompson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Linn 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bertram Bridge	3.4 miles	2014
Sumner School	3.7 miles	2013
Ash Park Historic District	5.3 miles	1993
Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District	5.3 miles	1980
King Memorial Chapel	5.4 miles	1976
Indian Creek Bridge	5.5 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002630 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn County	All 121 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.