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Photograph of Nevada Downtown Historic District
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Nevada Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Nevada Downtown Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Nevada, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”

Wikipedia article Nevada Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Story County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Approx. 6th St. from I Ave. to M Ave., Nevada, 50158
  • When was it listed? May 2003
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Nevada Central Business District MPS
  • National Register reference number. 03000356 - 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.

Storms near this property

60 of 80 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nevada, the town this property stands in, in 80 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 33 thunderstorm wind, 30 hail, 7 heavy rain, 4 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
May 2004LightningNevada2 hurtno account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNevada1 hurt, $10,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindNevada1 hurt, $10,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNevada$300,000Three modular homes and three mobile homes on a sale lot were destroyed.
May 1998HailNevada$75,000no account filed
May 1993HailNevada$50,000no account filed
May 2013Flash FloodNevada$25,000Indian Creek is reportedly out of its banks in Nevada.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNevada$25,000no account filed
May 2018HailNevada$20,000Trained spotter reported 2 inch hail.
June 2018Flash FloodNevada$20,000Emergency manager reported water over the road along 620th Ave approximately 3 miles south of Nevada.
June 2008FloodNevada$20,000Indian Creek was well out of its banks...flooding the 4H grounds at City Park in Nevada.
July 2008LightningNevada$20,000House was set on fire due to lightning strike.
June 2008HailNevada$20,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindNevada$20,000no account filed
June 2008HailNevada$15,000WHO television relayed a report from a viewer of golf ball size hail in Nevada from 1835 to 1840 CST.
June 2008HailNevada$15,000KCCI relayed a report of 2.60 inch hail.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNevada$15,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindNevada$15,000no account filed
June 2018Flash FloodNevada$10,000Law enforcement reported water running over the road at 250th Ave and 650th Street.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNevada$10,000Three to four inch diameter tree down at the intersection of 8th and H. Crews working on it at the time. Other small branches were down and a trash can lid was blown off of a concrete bin. Five to six inch tree snapped at the East Park.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNevada$10,000Large tree limbs fell on a car in Nevada.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNevada$10,000Numerous large trees and limbs down in town.
June 2008HailNevada$10,000Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail was reported.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindNevada$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailNevada$10,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000Two foot diameter tree down. Power lines down on residence.
June 2008HailNevada$5,000A trained spotter reported quarter size hail in Nevada at 1835 CST, started 4 minutes earlier.
June 2008HailNevada$5,000Report received from KCCI television.
May 1998Tornado (F1)Nevada$5,000Intermittent path
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000no account filed
July 2005LightningNevada$5,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNevada$5,000no account filed
October 1997LightningNevada$5,000no account filed
May 2013HailNevada$3,000Mainly pea size hail with some stones up to quarter size.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNevada$3,000Two power line poles snapped off at the base.
June 2008HailNevada$3,000no account filed
June 2004HailNevada$3,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNevada$3,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNevada$3,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNevada$2,000Report received via chat.
June 2011HailNevada$2,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNevada$2,000no account filed
October 2004HailNevada$2,000no account filed
June 2003HailNevada$2,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNevada$1,000Emergency manager reported at least two large trees down in Nevada. Time estimated from radar.
May 2025HailNevada-Delayed report, time estimated by radar.
April 2025HailNevada-Relayed via broadcast media. Time estimated by radar.
April 2025HailNevada-Report relayed by broadcast media. Time estimated by radar.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNevada-A personal weather station gusted to 58 mph.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNevada-A few tree limbs down in town. At least one greater than 4 in diameter. Report relayed by KCCI. Time estimated by radar.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNevada-A few three inch tree limbs down.
May 2024HailNevada-No comments in the local storm report with this event.
April 2023HailNevada-Emergency manager relayed report of quarter to silver dollar sized hail.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNevada-Trees down on power lines.

Every storm recorded in Story 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000356 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Story CountyAll 37 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.
  • 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.