Youngville Cafe

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2409 73rd St., Watkins, 52354
When was it listed? February 2007
Category. building
Township. Eldorado township
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 06001321 - 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

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Youngville Cafe between 2006 and 2018, burning about 74 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	4
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	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
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2506 HWY 218, IA
21 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 October 2015	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watkins, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Watkins	$3,000	Event occurred in Norway, Iowa
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Watkins	-	A metal chimney was blown off a house, a mailbox damaged, and several large tree branches were blown down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Watkins	-	Tree limbs were blown down in Watkins. The storm damage time was estimated from radar.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Watkins	-	The creek running near county road E66 near the intersection with 77th street between Norway and Atkins is well out of its banks.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Watkins	-	A downburst produced wind damage from the county line 3.5 miles southeast of Blairstown to 2.8 miles southeast of Shellsburg. There was a mile wide swath of near continuous damage to farm outbuildings, tree branches and some power poles. The greatest damage was from 3 miles south of Newhall, where a machine shed and garage were completely destroyed, to about 3 miles northwest of Atkins, where significant damage occurred to outbuildings.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Watkins	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some tree limbs in Watkins, IA at 330 am CDT July 24. This report was relayed by a media partner.
June 2008	Hail	Watkins	-	The emergency manager reported hail the size of quarters 1 mile south of Watkins.

Every storm recorded in Benton 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 06001321 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 17 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.
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.