Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
This property stands in Springfield Township. Personal Reminiscences and Fragments of the Early History of Springfield and Greene County, Missouri : Related by Pioneers and Their Descendants at Old Settlers' Dinners Given at the Home of Capt. Martin J. Hubble, March 31, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, published 1914; Greene County, Missouri : 1916, published 1916 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.
Read the whole chapter on Springfield Township - 41,758 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 31 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 28 August 1995 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 July 1997 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 24 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178561-03905-04092019-1340 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Lincoln School: 18 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badger Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Missing Link Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Brown Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Denton Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Doling Park Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Edwards Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Griesemer Plant #1-Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Marblehead Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Plant No 1 Mine and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Tindell Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield Furniture Company | 0.3 miles | 2006 | |
 | Stone Chapel | 0.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Benton Avenue AME Church | 0.3 miles | 2001 |
 | Bentley House | 0.4 miles | 1980 |
| Mid-Town Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1989 | |
 | Route 66 Steak 'n Shake | 0.5 miles | 2012 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000508 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Greene County | All 76 listed properties in this county. |
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