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Photograph of Mann School No. 2
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Mann School No. 2

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Mann School No. 2, also known as Sioux Township #2, is a historic building located west of Moorhead, Iowa, United States. Built in 1884, the building is a simple rectangular frame structure with a gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Mann School No. 2, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Monona County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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. Oak Ave, 3.5 mi. NW of Preparation Canyon State Park entrance, Moorhead, 51558
  • When was it listed? January 2001
  • Category. building
  • Township. Sioux township
  • National Register reference number. 00001655 - 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

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mann School No. 2 between 2011 and 2015, burning about 673 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
22 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources32565 LARPERTEUR MEMORIAL RD, IA
17 March 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2014Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2015Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Monona County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorhead, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994HailMoorhead$5,000no account filed
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Moorhead-A short-lived tornado developed in an agricultural field and moved generally northeast across fields and pastureland, damaging outbuildings of farmsteads near the intersection of 280th and Poplar Roads. The tornado appeared to dissipate in pastureland before reaching State Highway 183. Peak winds were estimated at 85 miles per hour. The tornado reached a maximum width of 100 yards, with an average width estimated at 50 yards.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-Law enforcement reported trees and branches down.
June 2011Tornado (EF1)Moorhead-A NWS storm survey determined a tornado tracked around 7 miles southeast of the Turin area. The tornado touched down near county roads E60 and L14 producing sporadic tree damage. The tornado tracked north northeast hitting a farmstead along L14 uprooting trees, downing power lines and destroying a grain bin. The tornado then moved across the Loess Hills producing varying degrees of tree damage. After crossing county roads E54 and 277th street additional tree and farm outbuilding damage occurred. Part of a roof of a farm house was removed near 258th Street with outbuildings also damaged in that area. The tornado knocked down some power lines near county road L16 before lifting in that area. The average path width was determined to be around 300 yards.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Moorhead-This tornado initially touched down in a grove of trees in a rural area southwest of Moorhead. As it tracked east it hit a farmstead causing house and outbuilding damage and also severely damaged a grove of walnut trees. Before the tornado lifted, it damaged two other separate groves of cottonwood trees and snapped a 3 foot diameter oak tree at its base and damaged a chicken coop at another farmstead. The path width of the tornado damage was generally less than 100 yards, although it reached a maximum width of around 200 yards.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed some small tree limbs in town.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-A thunderstorm wind gust of around 60 mph was reported near Moorhead.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-Large tree limbs broken off.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMoorhead-Trees blown down.
August 2011HailMoorhead-no account filed
May 2007HailMoorhead-no account filed
March 2007HailMoorhead-no account filed
March 2006HailMoorhead-no account filed
April 2004HailMoorhead-no account filed
April 2004HailMoorhead-no account filed
September 2004HailMoorhead-no account filed
August 2001HailMoorhead-no account filed
August 2000HailMoorhead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monona 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

3 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
Ingemann Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery1.5 miles2012
Jones Creek Watershed Historic District3.2 miles1991
South Jordan Cemetery4.9 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001655 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monona CountyAll 11 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.
  • 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.