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Photograph of West Grove United Methodist Church
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Grove United Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“West Grove United Methodist Church is located in the Unincorporated community of West Grove, Iowa, United States. West Grove has always been a Crossroads village, serving the surrounding rural area.”

Wikipedia article West Grove United Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Davis 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. 21944 Echo Ave.,, West Grove, 52537
  • When was it listed? May 2004
  • Category. building
  • Township. West Grove township
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 04000514 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of West Grove United Methodist Church between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,160 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking1

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
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2019Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2019Debris and open burning45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2020Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2017Debris and open burning640 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Grove United Methodist Church: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. 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
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite

Every working recorded in Davis County

Storms near this property

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Grove, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWest Grove$25,000Trained spotter reported numerous tree branches down in the West Grove community. Also reported metal roof damage to a local business. Time estimated by radar.
June 2014Flash FloodWest Grove$25,000Six to eight inches of water covered about 300 yards of Highway 2 about 1.5 miles west of West Grove.
June 2014Flash FloodWest Grove$25,000Water was reported over the road and a bridge had water over it on 245th between Dewberry and Ebony.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Grove$10,000Public reported tree down on power line in West Grove. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWest Grove$10,000Trained spotter reported 18 inch diameter trees snapped. Wind gust lasted from approximately 6:50pm to 7:20pm.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWest Grove$10,000no account filed
September 2015HailWest Grove$5,000Trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail along with some crop damage.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Grove$5,000Large trees were reported down by 70 MPH winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Grove$3,000Spotter estimated winds gusting up to 60 MPH.
May 2011HailWest Grove$3,000no account filed
June 2007HailWest Grove$2,000no account filed
June 2012HailWest Grove$1,000no account filed
April 2024HailWest Grove-Report via mping.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Grove-Delayed report of several large trees split with numerous branches downed.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Grove-NWS employee relayed couple of medium sized trees snapped halfway down. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
June 2021Heavy RainWest Grove-Coop observer reported 2.89 inches of rain in 24 hours.
June 2014Heavy RainWest Grove-Rainfall of 4.5 inches was received from southwest of Bloomfield.
August 1996Funnel CloudWest Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Davis 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
Henry Wishard House7.4 miles2004
Davis County Courthouse7.5 miles1974
Bloomfield Public Library7.6 miles2015
Bloomfield Square7.6 miles1976
Asa Wilson House7.7 miles1982
William Findley House7.8 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000514 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Davis CountyAll 12 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.