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Photograph of Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building
Photograph by Bryan Van Donslear, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building, also known as the Steamboat Rock Community School, is a historic building located in Steamboat Rock, Iowa, United States. The first school in town was a one-room school that opened a year after the town was platted in 1855.”

Wikipedia article Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 2004 · 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. 306 W. Market St., Steamboat Rock, 50672
  • When was it listed? March 2004
  • Category. building
  • Township. Clay township
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04000243 - 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building between 2006 and 2020, burning about 131 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burning35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2018Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1.5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELDORA, IA

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Steamboat Rock Consolidated Schools Building: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Eldora Pipe and Tile Co.ClayPast Producer
Crosser PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frericks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hardin City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this property

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steamboat Rock, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 heavy rain, 3 tornado. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSteamboat Rock$30,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSteamboat Rock$20,000Law Enforcement reported several large trees and power lines down in Steamboat Rock. At least 2 power poles snapped in half just west of Steamboat Rock on D35.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSteamboat Rock$10,000Large trees blown down.
November 2005Tornado (F0)Steamboat Rock$10,000Brief tornado touchdown north of Steamboat Rock.
May 2004HailSteamboat Rock$3,000no account filed
August 2000LightningSteamboat Rock$3,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSteamboat Rock$2,000no account filed
April 2006HailSteamboat Rock$2,000no account filed
April 2006HailSteamboat Rock$2,000no account filed
April 2007HailSteamboat Rock$1,000no account filed
June 2025Heavy RainSteamboat Rock-Total rainfall since midnight of 3.46 inches.
May 2024Heavy RainSteamboat Rock-Measured 1 inch in 20 minutes. Cannot see across road due to heavy rain.
August 2022HailSteamboat Rock-Delayed report relayed by broadcast media. Time estimated via radar.
June 2020Heavy RainSteamboat Rock-Coop observer reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 3.2 inches.
May 2019Funnel CloudSteamboat Rock-Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud.
May 2019Tornado (EFU)Steamboat Rock-Weak tornado reported northeast of Steamboat Rock along with spotter video. Remained in open farmland. Rated EF-Unknown as no damage indicators were impacted.
June 2018Funnel CloudSteamboat Rock-Trained spotter reported a rotating wall cloud with funnel.
June 2016HailSteamboat Rock-Media reported hail ranging from pea to nickel size. Time estimated from radar.
August 2015Heavy RainSteamboat Rock-Mesonet report of heavy rainfall of 5.24 inches through 3 pm.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSteamboat Rock-Recorded at a mesonet site.
July 2011Funnel CloudSteamboat Rock-Spotter reported a funnel cloud 5 miles east of Eldora.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Steamboat Rock-The tornado was on the ground briefly with a small debris cloud.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSteamboat Rock-Wind gust measured by the Steamboat Rock RWIS site.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSteamboat Rock-no account filed
April 2004HailSteamboat Rock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Civilian Conservation Corps-Prisoner of War Recreation Hall3.3 miles2012
Eldora Downtown Historic District3.5 miles2009
First Congregational Church3.7 miles1996
Hardin County Courthouse3.8 miles1981
Hardin County Home Historic District4.3 miles2010
Eldora Public Library6.7 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000243 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hardin CountyAll 34 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.