District School No. 3

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“District School No. 3, also known as Rock Creek Township School No. 3, Election School, and Martin School, is a historic school building located in Rockfield, Indiana in Rock Creek Township, Carroll County, Indiana. It was built in 1874, and is a one-story, rectangular red brick building with Greek Revival and Italianate style design elements.”
Wikipedia article District School No. 3 (Rockfield, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE corner of CR 750 N and CR 100 W, Rockfield, 46923
When was it listed? March 1988
Category. building
Township. Liberty township
National Register reference number. 88000374 - 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 District School No. 3: 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
	Wallace Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockfield, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockfield	$7,000	Several trees were reported down near Borrows and Lockport due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockfield	$5,000	Barn and Trees down
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockfield	$3,000	Pieces of an aluminum shed was blown off into a field due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. A trampoline was blown a considerable distance into a field. Tree limbs were blown down and one large chunk of tree was blown out as well. Other small trees and limbs were downed as well.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockfield	$3,000	A carport was blown into the roadway due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Rockfield	$1,000	High water, due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall, was observed along parts of County Roads 700 North and 175 West, resulting in road closures.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Rockfield	$1,000	Heavy rains flooded County Road 500 W and Towpath Road.
May 2011	Hail	Rockfield	-	no account filed
December 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Little Rock Creek Stone Arch Bridge	2.8 miles	2021
Lockport Wabash River Bridge	3.0 miles	2025
Camden Masonic Temple	3.3 miles	2003
Andrew Thomas House	3.3 miles	1984
Camden First Baptist Church	3.3 miles	2023
Burris House and Potawatomi Spring	3.4 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000374 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll County	All 37 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.