Conant's Cabin and Park

Built in 1920 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Conant's Cabin and Park, also known as the Rural Wayside Rest and Recreation Site, is a private park located east of Gladbrook, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1920 by local resident George Conant on 15 acres (6.1 ha) of farmland that he owned.”
Wikipedia article Conant's Cabin and Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tama County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1920, American Craftsman.

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

The listing

Address. IA 96, 3 mi. E of Gladbrook, Gladbrook, 50635
When was it listed? December 2000
Category. building
Township. Spring Creek township
When was it built? 1920
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 00000920 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Conant's Cabin and Park between 2006 and 2015, burning about 48 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
19 August 2013	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 December 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 January 2012	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 January 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Tama County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Conant's Cabin and Park: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gladbrook Brick and Tile Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Wolleson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Harris Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Union Grove Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Tama County

Storms near this property

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gladbrook, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flood, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$75,000	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$50,000	Numerous trees down. Electricity out.
May 2001	Tornado (F2)	Gladbrook	$35,000	Tornado moved out of Grundy County into Tama County. Track was through mostly rural areas with limited damage.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$35,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$30,000	no account filed
April 2008	Flood	Gladbrook	$25,000	E Ave washed out along Wolf Creek.
May 2001	Hail	Gladbrook	$25,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$25,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down in Gladbrook. Time estimated from radar.
April 2008	Flood	Gladbrook	$10,000	Highway 96 east of Gladbrook was closed due to flooding.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Gladbrook	$10,000	Water reported over 170th St. in the Gladbrook area.
April 2008	Flood	Gladbrook	$10,000	II Avenue was closed due to high water.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$10,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Gladbrook	$5,000	Quarter size hail was reported in Gladbrook.
March 2006	Hail	Gladbrook	$3,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$2,000	Large trees down.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$2,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Gladbrook	$2,000	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Gladbrook	$1,000	Hail was dime to quarter size.
August 2020	Hail	Gladbrook	-	Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail near Gladbrook.
August 2020	Tornado (EFU)	Gladbrook	-	Tornado associated with QLCS derecho first observed via high resolution satellite imagery. Path was also overflown by UAS confirming convegent path of debris. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU designation.
June 2017	Hail	Gladbrook	-	Media relayed report of half dollar sized hail via social media.
June 2017	Hail	Gladbrook	-	Amateur radio operator reported quarter sized hail.
April 2009	Heavy Rain	Gladbrook	-	Weekend total.
April 2005	Hail	Gladbrook	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tama 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000920 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tama County	All 14 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.