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Photograph of Central School
Photograph by Kevin Schuchmann, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Central School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Central School, also known as Hickory Grove School, is a historic one-room schoolhouse located northeast of Canton, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 12 are school buildings.”

Wikipedia article Central School (Canton, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 77 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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. Jct. of Bellevue--Canton and Dubuque--Canton Rds., Canton, 52207
  • When was it listed? July 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Limestone Architecture of Jackson County MPS
  • Township. Brandon township
  • National Register reference number. 92000920 - 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Central School between 2012 and 2014, burning about 4 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 January 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Central School: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gillespie Farm DiggingsLeadPast ProducerGalena
Mineral Creek DiggingsLeadPast ProducerGalena
Canton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crabtown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mo-Keta Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Canton School2.3 miles1979
Lubben, Henry, House, Smokehouse and Springhouse5.5 miles1992
Maquoketa Caves State Park Historic District5.6 miles1991
Mrs. Margaret Sieben House5.9 miles1992
St. Patrick's Church-Garryowen7.7 miles1992
Mill Rock School8.0 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000920 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson CountyAll 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.