Hamilton Primary School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Hamilton Primary School is a historic school building located 200 feet (61 m) on 107 E. The two-story Italianate building was constructed in 1873 using limestone from the original school building, which was built in 1835.”
Wikipedia article Hamilton Primary School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Jersey County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 200 ft. W of the jct. of Otteville and McClusky Rds., Otterville, 62052
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Township. Otter Creek township
National Register reference number. 98000975 - 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hamilton Primary School in 2011, burning under an acre 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	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
2 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	11402004

Every fire recorded in Jersey County

Storms near this property

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Otterville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 7 hail, 2 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
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Otterville	$1,000	A large tree was blown over onto a road in town.
April 2015	Hail	Otterville	-	Large hail fell in a swath from Otterville to Jerseyville. The largest stones were 2.25 inches in diameter.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Otterville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and numerous tree limbs. Also, a small shed had two pieces of plywood blown off and a metal awning at a local business was blown off and landed next to a van causing minor damage to the vehicle.
May 2000	Hail	Otterville	-	Storm spotters reported golfball size hail.
June 2015	Hail	Otterville	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Otterville	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Otterville	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Otterville	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Otterville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jersey 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
Charles Brainerd House	5.7 miles	1998
John and Amelia McClintock House	5.9 miles	1994
New Piasa Chautauqua Historic District	5.9 miles	1982
Grafton Bank	5.9 miles	1994
Jerseyville First Presbyterian Church	5.9 miles	2021
Ruebel Hotel	5.9 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000975 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jersey County	All 19 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.
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.