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Photograph of Linton Township High School and Community Building
Photograph by Christina Blust, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Linton Township High School and Community Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Linton Township High School and Community Building or Pimento School is a historic school and community center building located at Pimento, Indiana. It was built by architects from the Albert G.”

Wikipedia article Linton Township High School and Community Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Vigo County · listed in 2002 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 13041 Pimento Circle, Pimento, 47802
  • When was it listed? March 2002
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Indiana's Public Common and High Schools MPS
  • Township. Prairie Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 02000200 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Linton Township High School and Community Building: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pyramid Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Quinn Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Vigo County

Storms near this property

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pimento, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPimento$50,000Wet microburst from strong shower downed a couple tress and snapped several power poles.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPimento$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down across southern Vigo county.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindPimento$7,000Trees were downed along French Drive due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2009LightningPimento$5,000Lightning started a barn on fire on West French Road. Damage cost is a gross estimate.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPimento$4,000Several large trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts on the 11400 block of Sugar Lane.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindPimento$1,000A large tree limb was downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto State Road 246.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindPimento$500Small tree limbs were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph.
May 2011Flash FloodPimento$500The intersection of US Highway 41 and State Route 246 has nine inches of water over the road due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPimento$250An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. Power was knocked out at a gas station. Trash cans were sent flying across the lot.
May 2024HailPimento-One-inch hail amid thunderstorm winds gusting to 45 mph.

Every storm recorded in Vigo 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vigo CountyAll 58 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.
  • 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.