Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“West Ward School, also known as the West Building Mississinewa Community Schools, is a historic school building located at Gas City, Indiana. It was built between 1900 and 1902, and is a rectangular, Richardsonian Romanesque style brick and stone building.”
Wikipedia article West Ward School (Gas City, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85003226- 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of West Ward School: 4 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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