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Photograph of Union City School
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Union City School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Union City School, also known as West Side Middle School, is a historic school building located at Union City, Indiana. It was designed by the architecture firm of Mahurin & Mahurin and built in 1920-1921.”

Wikipedia article Union City School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Randolph County · listed in 2010 · 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. 310 N Walnut St, Union City, 47390
  • When was it listed? June 2010
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Indiana's Public Common and High Schools MPS
  • Township. Wayne township
  • National Register reference number. 10000379 - 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

43,559 words

The chapter on Wayne Township in History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882 names Union City. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

WILLIAM KENNON, born in I.eland, cnme lo America when fourteen years old; lived for a time in Guernsey County, Ohio, ami came to IlanJolph County, Ind., in 1830. He settled on the Downing place, south from the tollgale south of Union City. He married Eleanor Smith, and hart four children. He owned '210 acres of land, was a Democrat, was .Justice of the Peace for four years, and was highly esteemed for integrity and inlelligonce. He died many years ago, as did also his wife, but the dale of their death cannot now be exactly told.

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

Richard Mason (father of the " Mason's') was horn in North Carolina in about 1795; came to Clinton County, Ohio, when a boy, perhaps in 1805, married .Sarih Jackson in Ohio, movcil thence to Wayne County, Ind., and to Kosciusko County, Ind., to the latter in 1834. He hail ten children, and died in 1844 in the last named county, his wife dying in Randolph County, Ind., In 1850. His children all grew up and were married, and eight still survive. They are as follows : Thomas, ten children, resides at Union City, Ind. ; Elizabelh (JIason), seven children, is dead; DelilB (Harper), four children, lives in Iowa; Louisa (Drake), seven children, is dead; William, has seven children, resides in Union; Sarah (Gunter), one child, Kosciusko County; Salina(Frazier-Milnor) nine children, Iowa ; Elihu, several children, resides in Ohio ; Mary (Conkling), four children, Wayne Township ; Jemima(Duncan), three children, Iowa. Six of them have been residents of Randolph County, Thomas, William, Salina, Elihu, M.ary and Jemima; and Thomas, William and Mary live here sllU.

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

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 Wayne Township - 43,559 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union City, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindUnion City$150,000Thunderstorm wind gusts caused a covered bridge at Harter Park to collapse.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindUnion City$120,000Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage to the roof and A/C unit of Union City Jr/Sr High School.
August 2007LightningUnion City$10,000Lightning struck the Union City police department's communication system. The storm took out the base radio and a couple of computers.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindUnion City$5,000Utility poles and power lines were downed.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindUnion City$4,000Multiple power poles knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts in Union City.
November 2017FloodUnion City$3,000Localized flooding was occurring on various streets due to heavy rainfall. Rainfall of 2.38 inches fell in the Emergency Manager's rain gauge.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindUnion City$2,500The Randolph County EMA reported a tin roof being blown off an American Legion storage shed that was completely open on one side due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. A trampoline was also picked up and tossed.
May 2014HailUnion City-This report was relayed by Emergency Management.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Trees were down near County Road 700 East due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindUnion City-Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Union City-Weak, Brief Touchdown
July 2002Thunderstorm WindUnion City-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindUnion City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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

5 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
Union City Passenger Depot0.2 miles1983
Raphael Kirshbaum Building0.3 miles1990
Union City Commercial Historic District0.3 miles1999
William Kerr House0.3 miles1987
Union City Public Library0.3 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000379 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Randolph CountyAll 12 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.
  • 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.