from Norton Daily Telegram 15 July 1981, p. 4 "The storm which swept through Norton County recently wrote 'finis' to one of the last remaining evidences of the former 'Devizes' community. The one-room rural Devizes school burned to the ground when it was struck by lightning. The school house was on land now owned by Cecil McMullen and located nine miles west of Norton, 11 north and one east. The building had been unoccupied for a number of years. The last annual school report for Devizes School District No. 17 on file at the Register of Deeds office was for the school year 1946."