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One of 30 National Register listings published here for Iowa County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Linden High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 344 E. Main St., Linden, 53553
- When was it listed? November 1993
- Category. building
- Village. Linden village
- National Register reference number. 93001168 - 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
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Linden High School between 2009 and 2020, burning about 105 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 | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 5844 |
| 20 May 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 100 acres | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | BLOCKHOUSE |
| 28 April 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 42818 |
| 7 February 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 2020021 |
| 15 January 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 734 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 210 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 210 workings within 5 miles of Linden High School: 163 past producers, 40 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Advance Mine | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Linden Mine | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Prospect Along East Pecat | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect Along East Pecat | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Ivey Construction Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Johnston Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Kurth Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Masters Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Stephens Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linden, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Hail | Linden | $500,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linden | $70,000 | Eleven power poles snapped on highway 39 between Linden and county B. Numerous trees and branches down in the same area. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linden | $50,000 | The Iowa County Emergency manager reported damage from severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 knots (80 mph) in a 5-mile wide swath from south of Linden to south-southwest of Dodgeville. The damaging winds blew the roof off of a cattle barn south of Dodgeville and knocked over a grain bin. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down by the powerful winds. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linden | $30,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linden | - | Emeregency management officials reported large trees uprooted by severe thunderstorm wind gusts in the VIllage of Linden. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Linden Methodist Church | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Spensley Farm | 4.7 miles | 1997 |
| Mineral Point Historic District | 5.8 miles | 1971 | |
 | Pendarvis | 6.0 miles | 1971 |
| Mineral Point Hill | 6.2 miles | 1972 | |
 | Iowa Street Historic District | 7.7 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93001168 in Record Group 79. |
| Iowa County | All 30 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.