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Pleasant View School

Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Pleasant View School is a historic one-room school located near Medford, Johnson County, Missouri. It was built in 1915, and is a one-story, side-gabled, bungaloid frame building.”

Wikipedia article Pleasant View School (Medford, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1915.

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 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 674 SW 131 Highway, Medford, 64040
  • When was it listed? August 1999
  • Category. building
  • Township. Rose Hill township
  • When was it built? 1915
  • National Register reference number. 99000935 - 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.

The ground it stands on

8,644 words

This property stands in Rose Hill Township. The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 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 Rose Hill Township - 8,644 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

18 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant View School between 2003 and 2019, burning about 141 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178823-05130-04132019-1340
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation120274-05161-03142015-1105
10 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation120273-05161-03102015-1447

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant View School: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medford, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025Thunderstorm WindMedford-Social media report of a corn field flattened by strong winds south of Holden. Additional report of downed wires in the area.
May 2003HailMedford-no account filed
May 2002HailMedford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Joseph M. Miller Mausoleum4.2 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000935 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson CountyAll 22 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.