Washington School

Built in 1932 (Moderne architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Washington School is a school listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada and is located at 1901 N. White Street in the city of North Las Vegas.”
Wikipedia article Washington School (North Las Vegas, Nevada), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1932, Moderne architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1901 N. White St., North Las Vegas, 89030
When was it listed? March 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Historic School Buildings in the Evolution of the Fifth Supervision School District MPS
Census division. Clark
When was it built? 1932
Architectural style. Moderne architecture
National Register reference number. 92000120 - 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Washington School between 1995 and 2016, burning about 22,006 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	9
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 75
1 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	CLARK CO 2
7 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 66
12 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 69
11 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 68
1 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 54
30 June 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	BLMDOYARD
22 June 2005	Natural	22,000 acres	Desert National Wildlife Refuge	GASS

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Las Vegas, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 dust devil, 1 lightning. 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
September 2013	Lightning	North Las Vegas	$50,000	Lightning damaged two major distribution circuits, knocking out power to about 2000 people.
May 2012	Dust Devil	North Las Vegas	$50,000	The dust devil uprooted trees and then struck a retail store, tearing off part of the roof and breaking water lines to the building's sprinkler system. Power was also knocked out to about 2,000 customers.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	North Las Vegas	$50,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	North Las Vegas	$2,000	Multiple large trees were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	North Las Vegas	-	Recorded at North Las Vegas airport (VGT).
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	North Las Vegas	-	Recorded before the equipment was destroyed.
October 2005	Flash Flood	North Las Vegas	-	Curb-to-curb flooding at the intersection of Nellis and Tropicana.
August 1998	Flash Flood	North Las Vegas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Woodlawn Cemetery	0.6 miles	2006
Kyle Ranch	0.8 miles	1975
Berkley Square	1.0 miles	2009
Las Vegas Mormon Fort	1.0 miles	1972
Las Vegas Mormon Fort (Boundary Increase)	1.0 miles	1978
Leroy and Carrie Christensen House	1.1 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000120 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark County	All 48 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.
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.