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Photograph of Coal Ridge Baptist Church and Cemetery
Photograph by Boscophotos, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Coal Ridge Baptist Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Coal Ridge Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church at 1034 IA S71 in Knoxville, Iowa that was built in 1909. It replaced an 1860-built church that was destroyed in a fire on October 11, 1908, and it served the community of Coalport, which is long gone.”

Wikipedia article Coal Ridge Baptist Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2006 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1034 IA S71, Knoxville, 50138
  • When was it listed? August 2006
  • Category. building
  • Township. Knoxville township
  • National Register reference number. 06000711 - 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

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Coal Ridge Baptist Church and Cemetery in 2015, burning about 12 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 burning6

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 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Coal Ridge Baptist Church and Cemetery: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnknownLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Dingeman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Durham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

60 of 132 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knoxville, the town this property stands in, in 132 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 44 thunderstorm wind, 40 hail, 26 heavy rain, 9 flash flood. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$1,000,000no account filed
July 2015Flash FloodKnoxville$250,000Emergency Manager reported several feet of water in VA hospital building.
June 2000Flash FloodKnoxville$200,000no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodKnoxville$150,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$150,000no account filed
June 2011Flash FloodKnoxville$100,000EM reported several streets flooding with 8 to 10 inches of flowing water.
July 2008HailKnoxville$100,000no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodKnoxville$100,000no account filed
April 2012Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$75,000Trees were blown down along with dime size hail reported.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$75,000no account filed
July 2014Flash FloodKnoxville$50,000Law enforcement reported water on the roads in front of the Knoxville Racetrack The water was up to the bottoms of the cars.
June 2008Flash FloodKnoxville$50,000Roads were closed at McKimber Drive and 170th with water running over the road.
July 2011LightningKnoxville$50,000no account filed
April 2010FloodKnoxville$50,000no account filed
June 1998FloodKnoxville$50,000no account filed
May 1998FloodKnoxville$50,000no account filed
May 1996FloodKnoxville$50,000no account filed
June 1998FloodKnoxville$40,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$30,000A large tree was down on a power line.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$25,000Emergency manager reported upwards of 25 or so trees and or limbs downed onto roadways, with one on top of a passenger car. Power lines were also down around the area and a transformer was on fire from sustained damage.
July 2010Flash FloodKnoxville$25,000Four feet of water in some city streets. Cars were stalled.
July 1998FloodKnoxville$25,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$20,000Emergency manager reported trees downed in Knoxville. One fell on a car and crushed it.
July 2016Flash FloodKnoxville$20,000Law Enforcement reported water covering Highway 14 outside of the Knoxville Raceway. Time estimated from radar, delayed report.
July 2015LightningKnoxville$20,000Lightning struck a vehicle starting it on fire.
July 2015LightningKnoxville$20,000Lightning struck an LP tank and freon line starting a fire.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$15,000Large branch down on a home.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$15,000Emergency manager reported several trees and power lines down throughout town. Time estimated from radar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$15,000Emergency manager reported trees and power lines downed in Knoxville.
July 2015LightningKnoxville$15,000Lightning struck a telephone pole starting a fire.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$15,000Numerous trees reported down in Knoxville.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$15,000Several reports of power lines down in the city near the racetrack.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$15,000Trees down in the town square of Knoxville.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$15,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$10,000Emergency manager reported several large trees down in Knoxville.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$10,000Semi blown off of Highway 14 about 1 mile north of Knoxville.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$10,000Walmart Supercenter had a large window blown out by high winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$10,000Power lines and poles down.
April 2010HailKnoxville$10,000no account filed
April 2010HailKnoxville$10,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$10,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$10,000no account filed
July 1999HailKnoxville$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailKnoxville$10,000no account filed
May 1996HailKnoxville$10,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$7,500Power pole snapped off in Knoxville. Time estimated.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000Trained spotter reported two 4 inch diameter maple branches down. Also noted multiple reports of tree damage across town. Time estimated from radar.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000Power lines were down just west of Knoxville.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000no account filed
April 2010HailKnoxville$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000no account filed
May 2003HailKnoxville$5,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000no account filed
June 2001HailKnoxville$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindKnoxville$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000711 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion CountyAll 29 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.