Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“The Central City Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Central City, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Central City Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 121 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2003 · category: District.
National Register reference number.02001027- 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
2 since 2013
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Central City Commercial Historic District
between 2013 and 2017, burning about 62 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
1
Debris and open burning
1
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 Central City Commercial Historic District: 7 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Central City, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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.
The tornado touched down south of Central City in the county fairgrounds outfield area, and tracked about 12 miles northeast through Prairieburg before lifting in rural Jones County. The most intense damage occurred near and in Prairieburg. At a farmstead just southwest of town, a woman was injured when her garage collapsed on her. In Prairieburg, the grain elevator sustained severe damage, one mobile home was lofted and destroyed, and another mobile home severely damaged. On the east edge of town, a horse barn was destroyed. One horse was killed and two others sustained injuries. Northeast of town, a hog building was destroyed, killing several young hogs. This EF2 tornado continued into Jones County, Iowa.
Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew some tents over and damaged some carnival equipment at the Linn County Fairgrounds on the south side of Central City, IA at 555 pm CDT June 29.
A weak landspout tornado moved through rural areas northeast and east of Central City, IA. Evidence for the tornado is through photo and video, but no damage was observed along its path to assign a rating.
The Emergency Manager for Linn County reported street flooding in Central City as well as major flash flooding occurring in Walker. Rainfall amounts in Linn County ranged from 1.02 inches at Coggon to 2.50 inches 1 mile south-southeast of Cedar Rapids.
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
4 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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