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Photograph of Stanley School-District No. 2
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stanley School-District No. 2

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Stanley School-District No. 2 is a historic one-room school building located at Chain O'Lakes State Park in Green Township, Noble County, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1915, and is a one-story, "T"-plan, vernacular brick building.”

Wikipedia article Stanley School-District No. 2, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Noble County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Stanley School--District No. 2 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Cty. Rd. 300E, Albion, 46701
  • When was it listed? December 2014
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Indiana's Public Common and High Schools MPS
  • Township. Green township
  • National Register reference number. 14001038 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stanley School-District No. 2: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Taggert Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms near this property

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindAlbion1 hurt, $15,000A mobile home was removed from its foundation.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindAlbion$50,000Numerous trees, tree limbs, power lines and poles were blown down in and around Albion. One tree branch fell onto a moving van in the HIdden Diamonds Park in Albion. The driver was not injured.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindAlbion$50,000Numerous trees were blown down starting in the town of Albion and continuing along for 5 milesjust south of highway 8. Several homes sustained minor damage. One mobile home 2 miles southeastof Albion was destroyed. Two farmsteads had their grain bins blown down and another farmstead hada barn destroyed by the high winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAlbion$30,000A commercial building on the north side of Courthouse Square sustained significant roof damage.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindAlbion$20,000Siding and roof damage at the Noble County highway department.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbion$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAlbion$1,000Large tree, estimate 1 to 2 feet in diameter, uprooted in Albion.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAlbion$1,000A 12 inch diameter was down on SR 9.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Emergency management officials reported trees down in Albion, with one onto a mobile home. A mobile home suffered both extensive roof damage as well as being buckled in on the southeast side of the trailer.
March 2016Tornado (EF1)Albion-Indications of rotation were found on the northwest flank of a swath of microburst winds. The tornado appears to have touched down near a residence on East County Road 400 North, east of North County Road 150 East. A garage and well house suffered some damage. A barn on the northeast corner of the property suffered damage to the sides and roof, with debris being carried up to a half mile to the northeast. As the tornado crossed the road, power poles were snapped. It quickly moved over open fields until encountering a small property where 2 pine trees were snapped about half way up and the entire roof of a log cabin/cottage was picked up and thrown into a wood area to the northeast of the property. A picnic table and swing were thrown to the northwest into trees and another building. The tornado was likely in the process of lifting at this time with all debris left in the woods. No injuries were reported.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindAlbion-The public reported large tree limb was blown down onto a residence, causing significant damage to a roof.
July 2014HailAlbion-The public reported dime size hail and a few small tree limbs down on the office Facebook page.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindAlbion-The public reported several trees down in the area, plus some damage to a local car wash.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Emergency management officials received reports of trees and power lines down blocking several roads across the county.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Trees downed all over Albion. One tree fell down on top of a car and trapped an occupant inside.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Numerous reports of wind damage across the county with trees and power lines down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Albion.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Trees down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindAlbion-Trees and power lines down.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindAlbion-NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY.
May 2018HailAlbion-no account filed
March 2017HailAlbion-no account filed
June 2006HailAlbion-no account filed
June 2006HailAlbion-no account filed
March 2003HailAlbion-no account filed
April 2003HailAlbion-no account filed
March 2003HailAlbion-no account filed
May 2003HailAlbion-no account filed
May 2003HailAlbion-no account filed
May 2003HailAlbion-no account filed
April 2003HailAlbion-no account filed
April 2003HailAlbion-no account filed
August 2001HailAlbion-no account filed
May 2000HailAlbion-no account filed
June 2000HailAlbion-no account filed
April 1999HailAlbion-no account filed
June 1998HailAlbion-no account filed
May 1998HailAlbion-no account filed
May 1998HailAlbion-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindAlbion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble 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

4 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
Noble County Courthouse5.0 miles1981
Noble County Sheriff's House and Jail5.1 miles1982
Albion Courthouse Square Historic District5.2 miles2013
Luckey Hospital6.7 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14001038 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Noble CountyAll 15 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.