Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
From the record
“Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank, also known as Union Savings Bank and First Trust and Savings Bank, is an historic building located in Grand Mound, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”
Wikipedia article Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank (Grand Mound, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1923.
National Register reference number.01000909- 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
4 since 2008
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank
between 2008 and 2010, burning about 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank: 6 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grand Mound, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 tornado, 3 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A strong tornado developed over the southeast part of Grand Mound, Iowa, and tracked through Charlotte, Iowa. A continuous damage track was noted, with several damaged houses, especially in Charlotte. The highest damage rating was located northeast of Grand Mound, where a whole house was shifted off it's foundation, and an entire house completely collapsed. Many areas noted tree damage and snapped power poles along the track of the tornado as well. Damage was also noted in Charlotte, associated with partial to complete destruction of barns and outbuildings. 3 people where trapped in the house that collapsed in Grand Mound, and one was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. The peak winds were estimated at 120 mph.
Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down some power lines and trees about 8 miles north of Donahue, IA around 715 pm June 18. Two trees fell onto a house. A nearby garage sustained damage to the roof and another garage was knocked down.
Heavy rainfall of 3 to over 9 inches over significant areas from 20 to 22 July in extreme north central and northeast Iowa moved downstream causing the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage levels. ||DeWitt rose above its major flood stage level of 12.5 feet on July 30th, 2017 at approximately 645 AM CST. It crested around 13.3 feet at approximately 615 AM CST on July 23rd, 2017. Major river flooding continued into August.
The tornado touched down 8 miles west of Maysville and continued on path for 22 miles and lifted 2 miles south of DeWitt. The tornado began in Scott County, and was on the ground for another 5.8 miles after it moved into Clinton County. It was rated as an EF-1 after an NWS Storm Survey. The tornado snapped numerous trees and there was damage to farm outbuildings.
A brief tornado occurred at a farmstead. Numerous tree branches were down, with one tree uprooted. The home had trim and shingle damage, and a window broken. Grass was splattered on the garage and wind driven hail was also noted on west side of home and garage. Maximum winds were estimated to be 85 mph.
An EF-0 tornado touched down near the Scott County and Clinton County line. Minor damage to tree branches was observed in this area. The tornado strengthened and caused damage to trees and a house. Towards the end of its path, it caused mainly damage to corn. The peak estimated winds were 80 MPH and the tornado was on the ground for 4.14 miles.
Episodes of heavy rainfall of about 5 to 15 inches in a 10 day period in much of northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin caused the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage near DeWitt. The extended duration between the forecast and actual occurrence of lower end major river flooding allowed preparations to preclude major damage downstream. The gauge near DeWitt rose above major flood stage of 12.5 feet at 7 AM CST on 7 September. Then crested around 13.99 feet at 5 PM CST on September 10th and fell slightly below 12.5 feet for a few days at approximately 745 AM CST on 17 September. It then rose again above major flood stage at 135 AM on 22 September and continued above major flood stage into October.
Heavy rains in late May led to rises on rivers across the region. The Wapsipinicon River rose above the major flood stage of 12.5 feet during the late evening hours of the 2nd. The river did not fall below the major flood stage until the afternoon hours of the 10th.
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 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.
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.
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