Lynd School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Lynd School, also known as the Stamper's Creek Township School #2, is a historic one-room school located in Stampers Creek Township, Orange County, Indiana. It was built about 1900, and is a one-story, rectangular, frame building.”
Wikipedia article Lynd School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Orange 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. 723 N. Lynd R., 0.6 mi. N of jct. of IN 56 and Lynd Rd., Orleans, 47452
When was it listed? October 2002
Category. building
Also known as. Indiana's Public Common and High Schools MPS
Township. Stampers Creek township
National Register reference number. 02001169 - 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

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lynd School between 2004 and 2018, burning about 90 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	3
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
12 April 2018	Debris and open burning	77 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PIPELINE
21 March 2014	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Hoosier National Forest	STAMPER
28 February 2004	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BROMMER
27 February 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	COUNTY ROAD 350
12 November 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	MILLERSBURG

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orleans, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood. 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	Trees blew down along Highway 337 in Orleans.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	A spotter estimated that 50 to 60 mph winds downed numerous branches up to 2 inches in diameter.
April 2008	Flood	Orleans	-	State highway 337 was closed. Many creeks and streams in the county were at bank full.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	Power lines were downed.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	Numerous trees were downed.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	Trees and power lines were downed.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	Trees and power lines down
April 2006	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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

3 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
Thomas Newby Braxtan House	7.9 miles	1989
Orange County Courthouse	7.9 miles	1975
Paoli Historic District	7.9 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001169 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 18 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.