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Grant Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Grant Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Grant, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”

Wikipedia article Grant Commercial Historic District (Grant, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Parts of Second St. and U Ave., Grant, 50847
  • When was it listed? September 2002
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Iowa's Main Street Commercial Architecture MPS
  • Township. Douglas township
  • National Register reference number. 02001031 - 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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Grant Commercial Historic District between 2006 and 2020, burning about 110 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5

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
9 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Grant Commercial Historic District: 5 past producers. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Miller PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New Grant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grant, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindGrant$50,000no account filed
April 2024HailGrant-The office received a public report of quarter sized hail.
July 2024HailGrant-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail.
July 2024Funnel CloudGrant-Emergency management reported a funnel cloud.
September 2022HailGrant-Emergency manager reported quarter to large-size hail.
June 2021HailGrant-Emergency manager reported hail ranging from the size of ping pongs to golf balls. A few larger than golf ball sized hail stones were also noted.
June 2019HailGrant-The public reported 1.25 inch hail in Grant.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGrant-Trees and power lines were blown down by damaging thunderstorm winds near Grant.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindGrant-Thunderstorm winds estimated over 60 mph blew down several trees in Grant.
August 2015HailGrant-no account filed
August 2015HailGrant-no account filed
April 2012HailGrant-no account filed
May 2001HailGrant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Nodaway River Bridge3.0 miles1998
Round Barn, Pilot Grove Township5.6 miles1986
Round Barn, Washington Township5.6 miles1986
Sciola Missionary Baptist Church7.4 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001031 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery CountyAll 19 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.