Built in 1937 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
From the record
“Washington School, also known as the Head Start Building, is a historic school building located at Monroe City, Monroe County, Missouri, USA. It was built in 1937 and is a one-story, T-shaped, Colonial Revival style brick building.”
Wikipedia article Washington School (Monroe City, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1937, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.94001502- 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
5 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Washington School
in 1997, burning about 13 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
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Washington School: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Monroe City, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines around the county, especially between Monroe City and Paris. Also, several power poles were blown down along Highway W.
Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph were reported by ham radio spotters in extreme northern Monroe County, near the Monroe-Shelby County line. Ham radio spotters also reported several large trees down in Monroe City.
Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time over Monroe County. Several roads were flooded including Route W near the intersection with U.S. Highway 24.
Thunderstorm winds caused roof and structural damage to a home about 4 miles southwest of Monroe City. There were several trees, tree limbs and power lines blown down in Monroe City.
An intense bow echo moved through the area knocking down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines. The doors were blown off of a couple of hangers at Monroe City Regional Airport, damaging several planes.
Up to 5 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including the eastbound lanes of U.S. Highway 36 just west of Monroe City and numerous roads in the town of Monroe City.
Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Water covered Highway 15 in Paris and Highway D had 2 feet of water over it around 2 miles east of the intersection with Highway 15, so it was closed for a time. In Monroe City, one lane of a road in town was being eroded by fast flowing water from a nearby creek.
The Monroe County supercell spawned its second tornado near the southwest city limits of Monroe City at approximately 6:30 pm CDT. The tornado moved northeast across the northern part of town. Twenty-five homes sustained varying degrees of roof damage due to downed trees and large tree limbs broken by the tornado. The width of the damage area was 50 yards and damage intensity was rated F0 over this area.
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.
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.
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