Adams Elementary School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 141 National Register listings published here for Rock County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 1138 East Memorial Drive, Jamesville, 53545
When was it listed? April 2025
Category. building
City. Janesville city
National Register reference number. 100011592 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

70,689 words

This property stands in Janesville City. History of Rock County, and Transactions of the Rock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute, published 1856; The History of Rock County, Wisconsin; Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., published 1879 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 Janesville City - 70,689 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Adams Elementary School between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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	9
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	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
7 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	6330
8 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	5344
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	5449
5 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	4517
29 April 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3368
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	3363
23 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	279
13 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2895

Every fire recorded in Rock County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Adams Elementary School: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Bass Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Austin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Beaudin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
County Shop Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Frank Brothers	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Janesville Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rock County Pioneer Crusher 493	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wheeler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rock 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
Columbus Circle Historic District	0.2 miles	2005
Benton Avenue Historic District	0.3 miles	1996
Frances Willard Schoolhouse	0.3 miles	1977
Jefferson Avenue Historic District	0.5 miles	2006
Whiton-Parker House	0.5 miles	2016
Brewster Randall House	0.6 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011592 in Record Group 79.
Rock County	All 141 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.