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Photograph of Gas City High School
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gas City High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Gas City High School, also known as the East Ward School, is a historic school building located at Gas City, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story, square, Romanesque Revival style brick and stone building.”

Wikipedia article Gas City High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 2004 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 400 East South A St., Gas City, 46933
  • When was it listed? March 2004
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Indiana's Public Common and High Schools MPS
  • Township. Mill township
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture, Prairie School architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03001316 - 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.

The ground it stands on

12,490 words

This property stands in Mill Township. History of Grant County, Indiana, published 1886 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Mill Township - 12,490 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Gas City High School: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Gas City-Own CrewsStoneProducer
Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own CrewsStoneProducer
Grant Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jack Himelick Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marion PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

29 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gas City, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 17 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGas City$1,000Video on Facebook shows a large tree falling in Gas City.
May 2024HailGas City$1,000In addition to the hail, the spotter recorded a 51mph wind gust via anemometer.
March 2024HailGas City$1,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGas City-A mesonet station IN008 Gas City.
March 2023Tornado (EF3)Gas City-This intense tornado developed just southeast of Gas City and tracked rapidly|northeast before dissipating just east of 900 E and just south of 100 S. Numerous|homes sustained minor to major damage along this track with extensive tree damage|noted in many areas. The hardest hit area was just east off Blackthorn Drive where|several homes were destroyed. Tornado weakened as it crossed I-69 yet continued to|produce varying degrees of damage to barns, trees and homes before it dissipated.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGas City-Emergency management officials reported damage to a house from a tree falling onto it.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGas City-A 50 foot section of wall and roof collapsed at the Dollar General Warehouse.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGas City-A mesonet site recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGas City-Trained spotters reported trees down across the county. One large tree was blocking the road at State Route 18 and Western Avenue.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGas City-Six trees, each approximately 12 inches in diameter, were blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGas City-Numerous power and telephone lines blown down.
August 2001FloodGas City-Intersections flooded at SR 15 and 22, and SR 9 and 22, and SR 22 and US 35.
July 1998HailGas City-GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR I-69 AND STATE ROADS 22 AND 35.
July 1998HailGas City-ONE TO ONE AND A QUARTER INCH MEASURED IN GAS CITY.
June 2018HailGas City-no account filed
March 2016HailGas City-no account filed
August 2016HailGas City-no account filed
May 2011HailGas City-no account filed
May 2011HailGas City-no account filed
May 2011HailGas City-no account filed
September 2001HailGas City-no account filed
August 2001HailGas City-no account filed
May 2000HailGas City-no account filed
May 1999HailGas City-no account filed
June 1999HailGas City-no account filed
May 1999HailGas City-no account filed
May 1998HailGas City-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGas City-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGas City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Thompson-Ray House0.2 miles2009
West Ward School0.5 miles1985
Marion Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Historic District2.7 miles1999
Israel Jenkins House4.1 miles2003
Baldwin Addition Historic District5.2 miles1999
Marion PCC & St. Louis Railroad Depot5.3 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03001316 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant CountyAll 23 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.