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Chicago and North Western Passenger Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Wall Lake is a historic station building located in Wall Lake, Iowa, United States. Wall Lake was served by both the Chicago & North Western Railroad and the Illinois Central Railroad, which gave it a significant rail presence from the 1880s until World War II.”

Wikipedia article Wall Lake Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Sac County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3727 Perkins Ave., Wall Lake, 51466
  • When was it listed? May 2003
  • Category. building
  • Township. Viola township
  • National Register reference number. 03000358 - 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chicago and North Western Passenger Depot in 2006, burning under an acre 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/undetermined1

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
25 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Sac County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Chicago and North Western Passenger Depot: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Black Hawk Lake State Area PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lake View Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Meister PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wall Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Waters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sac County

Storms near this property

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wall Lake, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$70,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$40,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$35,000no account filed
August 2009HailWall Lake$25,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$20,000Wind damage including numerous branches down and a few trees down across southern and southwestern Sac County.
April 1998HailWall Lake$10,000no account filed
August 2009HailWall Lake$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailWall Lake$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$5,000no account filed
May 2012HailWall Lake$2,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWall Lake$2,000no account filed
April 2014HailWall Lake$1,000Most of the hail was pea size with the ground covered. Several stones were nickel to quarter size.
April 1998HailWall Lake$1,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWall Lake-Delayed report from Wall Lake post office of large tree down near Needham Ave. Time estimated from radar.
August 2017Heavy RainWall Lake-CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.30 inches over the last 24 hours.
April 2023HailWall Lake-no account filed
July 2005HailWall Lake-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWall Lake-no account filed
August 2000HailWall Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sac 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

5 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000358 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sac CountyAll 13 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.