High Hill School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“High Hill School, also known as High Hill Community Building, is a historic school building located at High Hill, Montgomery County, Missouri. It was built in 1867, and is two-story, Greek Revival style frame building with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article High Hill School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1980 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off U.S. 40, High Hill, 63350
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Township. Bear Creek township
National Register reference number. 80002381 - 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.

Fires near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of High Hill School between 1997 and 2017, burning about 142 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 April 2016	Debris and open burning	112 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	135858-07034-04142016-1653
7 March 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 March 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 February 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 December 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	142895-07034-12142016-1400

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 124 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 124 workings within 5 miles of High Hill School: 123 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Missouri Minerals Processing Plant	Clay	Producer
Unknown - Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
J.S.Heady Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ammann Pits	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names High Hill, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2024	Hail	High Hill	-	Hail up to golfball sized was reported along Interstate 70 in High Hill, MO.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	High Hill	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines, causing a transformer to blow about a mile southeast of High Hill.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	High Hill	-	Thunderstorm winds snapped off a power pole in town.
April 2015	Hail	High Hill	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	High Hill	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	High Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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

1 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
	Farmers Mercantile Co. Building	0.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002381 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 8 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.