Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“Sharon Methodist Episcopal Church is located in Sharon Township, a rural area of northwest Clinton County, Iowa, United States. The building is the only remaining structure that remains of a community by the name of Burgess, which was nicknamed Smithtown.”
Wikipedia article Sharon Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03000745- 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
15 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Sharon Methodist Episcopal Church
between 2009 and 2017, burning about 56 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
Debris and open burning
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Sharon Methodist Episcopal Church: 5 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Lost Nation, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flood, 1 hail.
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.
Heavy rainfall of 4 to over 10 inches over significant areas from 21 to 23 September in extreme North Central and Northeast Iowa moved downstream causing the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage levels. ||De Witt rose above its major flood stage level of 12.5 feet on September 29th, 2016 around 7 AM CST. It crested around 13.9 feet at approximately 4 PM CST on October 1st, 2016. It fell below major flood stage on October 5th around 5 PM CST.||Major flooding continued into October.
An outbuilding was blown 5 feet off its foundation, breaking the frame and tilting it at a 30 degree angle. The one thing preventing total collapse was a tractor inside the building.
Wind gusts estimated to be 70 to 80 mph blew down some trees in Lost Nation, IA at 656 pm CDT June 18. At least one of the trees landed on power lines. Part of the lumber yard's tin roof was peeled off.
Photo and video evidence passed along by Emergency Management confirms an EF-0 tornado just southeast of of Lost Nation, IA. There was damage to a metal farm building. |Maximum winds are estimated around 85 mph.
Heavy rainfall of 4 to over 10 inches over significant areas from 21 to 23 September in extreme North Central and Northeast Iowa moved downstream|causing the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage levels . The gage at De Witt 4 South, rose above its major flood stage level of 12.5 feet on September 29th, 2016 around 7 AM CST. It crested around 13.9 feet at approximately 4 PM|CST on October 1st, 2016. It fell below major flood stage on October 5th around 5 PM CST. For damage information please see September Storm Data.
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.
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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