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Photograph of Center Valley Grade School
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Center Valley Grade School

Built in 1888. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Center Valley Grade School is a museum and former one-room school in Center, Outagamie County, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.”

Wikipedia article Center Valley Grade School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Outagamie County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1888.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W5562 Center Valley Rd, Center, 54106
  • When was it listed? April 2011
  • Category. building
  • Town. Center town
  • When was it built? 1888
  • National Register reference number. 11000162 - 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

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Center Valley Grade School between 1999 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 were 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
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking1

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
30 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources118
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources49
8 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDITCH FIRE
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources47
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources48
7 May 2018Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHERMAN FIRE
7 May 2018Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesPIG FIRE

Every fire recorded in Outagamie County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Center Valley Grade School: 15 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Cizmon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J Marcks Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
John Wolf Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mackville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarry No 2 Van SchyndelStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rock Road Blue Bell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rocky Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clyde Main Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clyde Main Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dobrinska Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Outagamie 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

4 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
George Peters House5.2 miles1987
Barteau Bridge6.2 miles2002
Greenville State Bank7.4 miles1982
Joseph Kronser Hotel and Saloon7.5 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000162 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Outagamie CountyAll 51 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.