Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1986. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
one of 17 National Register listings in Jefferson County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Jefferson County.
National Register reference number.86001569- 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 2010
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Independent School District No. 2 Building between
2010 and 2020, burning about 26 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
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Other causes
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
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. Museums hold 593 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Independent School District No. 2 Building between 1836 and
1974: 335 Animalia, 221 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Independent School District No. 2 Building: 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Chromium, Iron, Clay. 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
Steubenville, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 46 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
From the nomination file
1,644 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
The Independent School District #2 Building located about 15' from a busy has been converted (date unknown, although early) to a doorway, with the upper elevation displays a three-light transom, and all windows are 6/6 double-hung The gable roof exhibits diminutive cornice returns, with the date 1880 interior, although bare, has not been altered substantially and still retains Condition date fair excellent unexposed state highway in Island Creek Township,is a one story brick rectangle.The Check one original wainscoting beneath the windows and a pressed metal ceiling.
windows with plain sandstone lug sills and lintels.The northern-most window alteration has been the removal unknown)of the school bell tower.The foundation is sandstone with cut stone water table and the walls are common bond brick.The 3-bay east gable end features two double-hung 6/6 sash outlined in the slate and a tall brick chimney on the north slope.A wooden sunburst molding is found.in the rear gable end. The only other exterior Areas of Significance-Check and justify below .archeology-prehistoric community planning landscape architecture X architecture X 1800-1899 X 1900 - other (specify) Builder Architect Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) The Independent School District #2 Building is significant under criteria A County, and is one of only two examples of one-room schoolhouse architecture Like most areas of the state, during the late 19th century there were many rural district schoolhouses scattered about Jefferson County, but all other examples have been drastically altered or demolished. Collectively these The Bantam Ridge Schoolhouse (NR 10/81) in nearby Cross Creek Township is the best preserved examples of rural schoolhouse architecture of this period in the country from this era were built of frame, so the use of brick further The first mention of a schoolhouse here is in 1866 when the nearby church in 1876.
Apparently the local school districts went through some sort of reorganization in the late 1870s or early 1880s for the land was purchased school system until 1950 when it was sold to a private firm who has since 1600-1699 1400-1499 1500-1599 economics commerce conservation 1700-1799 communications invention philosophy industry humanitarian Period exploration/settlement archeology-historic transportation theater engineering science prehistoric unknown Xeducation sculpture military agriculture literature Specific dates law -politics/government social/ maintained its structural condition. 8. Significance .religion design and cornice returns. and C.It isbelieved to be the oldest school building remaining in Jefferson _music ca. 1865 still intact in the county.
school was designed to be accessible to the local rural "community" where they had an immense impact on social development of youth. al though clearly from the late 19th century. Together these two represent the distinguishes the Independent School District building. This brick schoolhouse appears to date from the 1860s and is remarkably well preserved, displaying a modest form of Greek Revival styling with its simple window 1880 date in the slate roof.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 86001569, 16 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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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