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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Keokuk County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hayesville Independent School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 231 Washington St., Hayesville, 52562
- When was it listed? October 2014
- Category. building
- Township. West Lancaster township
- National Register reference number. 90001195 - 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
17 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hayesville Independent School between 2009 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 150 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 202ND AVE & 149 HIGHWAY, IOWA |
| 21 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hayesville Independent School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayesville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hayesville | $30,000 | Also 1 West of Hayesville; heavy damage to a grain silo with power poles snapped in half. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Hayesville | - | The North Skunk River at Sigourney rose above the major flood stage of 21 feet around 1AM on December 16 and fell back below 21 feet on the 16th around 6PM. The river crested at 21.1 feet at 1043 AM on December 16. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Hayesville | - | Heavy rain during the last week of May caused a rapid rise on the Skunk River to the south of Sigourney. The river rose above the major flood stage of 21 feet early in the morning of the 28th and fell below major flood stage on the mid morning of the 31st. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Hayesville | - | no account filed |
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
4 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lancaster School | 4.4 miles | 1984 |
 | Keokuk County Courthouse | 5.3 miles | 1981 |
 | Public Square Historic District | 5.3 miles | 1999 |
 | Sigourney Public Library | 5.4 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90001195 in Record Group 79. |
| Keokuk County | All 10 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.