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Photograph of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
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St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is a former parish church of the Archdiocese of Dubuque located in Stone City, Iowa, United States. Catholics in Stone City were initially served by priests from Cedar Rapids and Anamosa.”

Wikipedia article St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church (Stone City, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Jones County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 12472 Jones Cty Rd. X28, Stone City, 52205
  • When was it listed? August 2005
  • Category. building
  • Township. Fairview township
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 05000904 - 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

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church between 2007 and 2009, burning about 69 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/undetermined11

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
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church: 11 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Dearborn QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Penitentiary QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Weber Mine and MillStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionProducer
Weber Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionProducer
Equitable Life PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pearson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weber Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Champion #2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chas Zimmer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jones County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone City, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 7 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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
July 2010FloodStone City$10,000,000Several homes flooded in Olin. The extent of the flooding was blamed at least in part on a levee break along a creek north of town that was intended to divert the creek waters into the Wapsipinicon River.
June 2008FloodStone City$5,000,000The record crest on the Wapsipinicon River at Anamosa occurred on June 13, 2008 at 26.18 feet. Flood stage is 14 feet.
June 2010FloodStone City$500,000Heavy rains during the third week of June resulted in the Wapsipinicon River at Anamosa going above the moderate flood stage level of 15.5 feet on June 21 around 100 am. It crested around 15.6 feet around 700 am June 21. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 715 am June 21.
August 2009FloodStone City$500,000no account filed
July 2010FloodStone City$250,000no account filed
September 2016FloodStone City$100,000Heavy 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. ||Anamosa rose above its major flood stage level of 21.5 feet on September 27th, 2016 at approximately 11 PM CST. It crested around 22.8 feet at approximately 7 PM CST on September 27th, 2016. It fell below major flood stage on September 28th around 4 pm CST.||Flooding continued into October.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindStone City$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew down or uprooted some large trees and ripped the roof off a metal barn about 8 miles west southwest of Monticello, IA around 730 pm July 24. This report was relayed by a spotter network.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindStone City$20,000no account filed
July 2025Tornado (EF1)Stone City-This tornado developed just east of the Wapsipinicon River in Linn County and crossed into Jones County ending near U.S. Highway 151. Snapped large trees were found at a few locations, along with roof damage to a mobile home.
May 2024HailStone City-The time was estimated from radar data.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindStone City-A trained spotter reported trees down and large tree branches down. The time of the event was estimated using radar. This report was received via social media.
September 2018FloodStone City-Episodes of heavy rainfall of about 5 to 15 inches in a 10 day period in much of northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin caused the Wapsipinicon River to rise above major flood stage at Anamosa. The extended duration between the forecast and actual lower end major river flooding allowed preparations to preclude major damage downstream. Anamosa rose above major flood stage of 21.5 feet at 7 PM CST on 4 September. Then crested around 23.28 feet at 1045 PM CST on September 8th and fell below 21.5 feet at approximately 545 AM CST on 9 September.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindStone City-Two large branches were down at a residence along with the soffit off of the house.
June 2008HailStone City-Nickel-sized hail fell just west of Anamosa, IA at 9:58 pm June 12.
March 2026HailStone City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Stone City Historic District0.4 miles2008
John A. Green Estate0.7 miles1978
State Quarry, Iowa Men's Reformatory2.2 miles1992
Iowa Men's Reformatory Cemetery2.7 miles1992
Farm No. 1, Iowa Men's Reformatory3.1 miles1992
Rick's Brewery3.1 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000904 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jones CountyAll 27 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.