Oleson Park Music Pavilion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Oleson Park Music Pavilion', dedicated as Karl King Bandshell, is located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States. The pavilion is associated with Karl King, a famed composer for concert and military bands, who advocated for its construction.”
Wikipedia article Oleson Park Music Pavilion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Webster County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure.

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 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 1400 Oleson Park Ave., Fort Dodge, 50501
When was it listed? May 2003
Category. structure
City. Fort Dodge city
Architectural style. modern architecture
Architect. Henry Leveke Kamphoefner
National Register reference number. 03000357 - 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 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Oleson Park Music Pavilion between 2013 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 August 2013	Smoking	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 April 2014	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2015	Smoking	45 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 November 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Oleson Park Music Pavilion: 20 past producers, 14 producers, 1 unknown. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fort Dodge Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fort Dodge Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite	Past Producer
Johnston Clay Works	Clay	Past Producer
Kalo Brick and Tile Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Lehigh Pit & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
National Gypsum Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite	Producer
Northwest Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
U S Gypsum Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite	Producer
Vincent Clay Products Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Croft Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Dodge, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Dodge	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fort Dodge Junior High School	0.9 miles	2015
Vincent House	1.1 miles	1973
Sacred Heart Catholic Church	1.2 miles	2022
Wahkonsa Hotel	1.3 miles	2008
Oakland Cemetery	1.3 miles	2000
Webster County Courthouse	1.4 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000357 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Webster County	All 15 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.