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One of 58 National Register listings published here for Vigo County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
New Goshen District No. 2 School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 9620 Rangeline Place, New Goshen, 47885
- When was it listed? September 2016
- Category. building
- Also known as. Indiana's Public Common and High Schools MPS
- Township. Fayette township
- National Register reference number. 16000613 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of New Goshen District No. 2 School between 2002 and 2003, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 November 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Goshen District No. 2 School: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Goshen, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Goshen | $4,000 | Power poles were knocked down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | New Goshen | $2,000 | Excessive rainfall flooded the road at SR 63 and US 150. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Goshen | $1,000 | Trees and power lines downed. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Goshen | - | A damaging thunderstorm wind gust was estimated in New Goshen. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Foley Hall | 5.0 miles | 1985 |
| Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Historic District | 5.0 miles | 2017 | |
 | Collett Park Neighborhood Historic District | 6.7 miles | 2004 |
 | Collett Park | 6.8 miles | 1981 |
 | Twelve Points Historic District | 7.1 miles | 2005 |
 | Markle House and Mill Site | 7.3 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000613 in Record Group 79. |
| Vigo County | All 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.
- 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.
- 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.