Prill School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“Prill School, also known as the Prill School Museum, is a historic one-room school building located in Henry Township near Akron, Indiana. It was built in 1876, and is a one-story, rectangular, red brick building topped by a slate gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Prill School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1981 · 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, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW of Akron, Akron, 46910
When was it listed? December 1981
Category. building
Township. Henry township
National Register reference number. 81000012 - 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.

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 Prill 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
	Van Duyne Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akron, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$10,000	A tornado flipped over four mobile office homes south of Rochester. Two men were injured when a tree fell on their car and another man was injured when a limb flew through the window of his home. Trees were blown down at Akron. Some trees were down on cars.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	$1,000	A tree down. Time estimated from radar.
June 2023	Hail	Akron	$1,000	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Akron	$1,000	no account filed
May 2019	Tornado (EF3)	Akron	-	This is a continuation of a tornado that crossed County Road 1600 N between County Roads 100 and 175 East in Miami county and into Fulton County. Tornado continued off to the ENE weakening as it crossed 1600 N and 100 E in Fulton county. Tornado then turned northeastward as it traveled just north of the Miami/Fulton county line causing sporadic damage to several farm buildings. Tornado continued to slowly \|weaken in intensity as it crossed SR 114. As the tornado crossed CR 700 W it re-intensified for a time crossing SR 15 south of CR 1400 N with extensive damage to a hog confinement facility west of SR 15 and significant damage to a farm property \|east of SR 15. From here the tornado rapidly weakened eastward and lifted near CR 400 W. The maximum intensity of the tornado in Fulton county was EF1.
June 2015	Flood	Akron	-	Water was flowing over the road.
October 2014	Hail	Akron	-	Hail to the size of pennies accumulated around an inch on local roads.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	County officials reported several trees down.
June 2009	Hail	Akron	-	Law enforcement officials reported golf ball size hail.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	Trained spotters reported large limbs down in the Akron area.
April 2006	Hail	Akron	-	Hail increased from the size of quarters up to golf ball size in the town of Akron.
July 2005	Funnel Cloud	Akron	-	Numerous reports were received of well developed cold air funnel clouds in and around the Akron area as a result of interacting boundaries.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	Emergency management reported trees down in Akron.
October 2014	Hail	Akron	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Akron	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Akron	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Akron	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Utter-Gerig Round Barn	1.4 miles	1990
John Haimbaugh Round Barn	4.5 miles	1993
Akron Historic District	5.3 miles	2024
Rochester Downtown Historic District	5.4 miles	2008
Lyman M. Brackett House	5.5 miles	1984
John W. Smith House	5.6 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000012 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 9 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.