Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Earlham Public School is a historic building located in Earlham, Iowa, United States. The town's name was chosen by the Quakers, who were the largest group of settlers in the community.”
Wikipedia article Earlham Public School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 55 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Also known as. Legacy in Stone: The Settlement Era of Madison County, Iowa TR (AD); Legacy in Stone: The Settlement Era of Madison County, Iowa TR
Township. Penn township
National Register reference number.82002631- 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 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Earlham Public School
between 2006 and 2014, burning about 40 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
5
Debris and open burning
3
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Earlham Public School: 7 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Earlham, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 34 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 2 tornado.
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.
Trees and power lines were down west of Earham. Two to three poles were snapped. A shed was blown over with about 30 small pieces of wood spread across the field.
Thunderstorms propagated south across Iowa during the early morning hours. Though in general they were below severe levels, one storm produced high winds in Earlham. The Winds took the roof off of a barn and caused damage to a few out buildings on one farmstead.
Law enforcement reported 2 foot trees down on power lines in SW Earlham and a pole leaning over on SW 3rd St south of Elm St. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
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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