West Bend, Iowa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

• Grotto of the Redemptionlisted 2001
• First Presbyterian Churchlisted 2010

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1954 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Fort Dodge quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS West Bend quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Humboldt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of West Bend: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Palo Alto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Bend in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Palo Alto County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465615. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.