Kenneth School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Rock County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 230 W. 1st Ave., Kenneth, 56147
When was it listed? March 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Rock County MRA
City. Kenneth city
National Register reference number. 80002150 - 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.

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenneth, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2020	Flash Flood	Kenneth	-	Water was reported flowing over roads north of Kenneth.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Kenneth	-	Rainfall report of 5.25 inches relayed through the Nobles County Emergency Manager.
August 2013	Hail	Kenneth	-	Large hail whitened the ground.
April 2010	Hail	Kenneth	-	Hail the size of quarters and smaller hail covered the ground.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kenneth	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including trees split by the wind, and branches up to 6 inches in diameter blown down.
June 2005	Hail	Kenneth	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Kenneth	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Kenneth	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kenneth	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Kenneth	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rock 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Blue Mounds State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources	6.5 miles	1989
	Frederick and Maryanna Manfred House	7.5 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002150 in Record Group 79.
Rock County	All 20 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.
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.