Prairie Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Pleasand Hill Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Prairie Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Pleasant Hill Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery in rural Lincoln Township, southeast of Yale, Iowa, United States. The Methodist Episcopal Church established a congregation in 1866, and services were held in area schoolhouses until a frame building was constructed for a church in 1880.”
Wikipedia article Prairie Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Pleasant Hill Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Dallas 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Beaumont Ave. and 200th St., Yale, 50146
When was it listed? October 2004
Category. building
Township. Lincoln township
National Register reference number. 04001141 - 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Pleasand Hill Cemetery 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Iowa Wetland Management District	BAYS BRANCH
26 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Wetland Management District	WINTERS

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001141 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas County	All 19 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.