Pleasant Lawn School Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Pleasant Lawn School Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located northeast of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Pleasant Lawn School Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off IA 218, Mt. Pleasant, 52641
When was it listed? March 1987
Category. district
Township. Marion township
National Register reference number. 87000477 - 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

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Lawn School Historic District between 2013 and 2018, 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
Debris and open burning	3
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
19 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 March 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 February 2017	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 February 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Henry 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
Old Main	3.8 miles	1973
Zuhn Building	4.1 miles	1991
Harlan-Lincoln House	4.2 miles	1973
G. W. S. Allen House	4.4 miles	1985
Brazelton House	4.4 miles	1983
Henry Ambler House	4.5 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000477 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 54 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.