Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“Williamson School, also known as District High School, is a historic building located in Williamson, Iowa, United States. Williamson, for whom the town was named, built the first school buildings in town.”
Wikipedia article Williamson School (Williamson, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Lucas County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.98000374- 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
32 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Williamson School
between 2006 and 2019, burning about 483 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
17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Smoking
1
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Williamson School: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, 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
Williamson, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain.
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.
Emergency manager reported multiple secondary roads remained under water or closed in Lucas County from the heavy rainfall and subsequent overland and river flooding.
Trained spotter reported grain bin damage, including one rolled up against another, completely removed fence posts, and tree damage. Time radar estimated.
The tornado entered into Lucas County from Marion County and stayed in rural areas of far northeast Lucas County. Damage was confined to a grove of trees and farm fields. This tornado continued into Monroe County.
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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