Williges Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Williges Building, also known as Cownie-Williges Building, is a historic building located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. It is a three-story commercial block that was designed by local architects William L.”
Wikipedia article Williges Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Woodbury County · listed in 2007 · 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. 613-615 Pierce St., Siouz City, 51101
When was it listed? August 2007
Category. building
City. Sioux City city
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. William L. Steele
National Register reference number. 07000850 - 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

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Williges Building between 2000 and 2018, burning about 158 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	8
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
30 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2005	Fireworks	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	1001 RIVER DRIVE
11 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	110 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Woodbury County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Williges Building: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Unknown
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Woodbury 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Davidson Building	under 500 feet	1999
Woodbury County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1973
New Orpheum Theatre	under 500 feet	2000
Warrior Hotel	under 500 feet	1985
Warnock Building	0.1 miles	2023
Lewis System Armored Car and Detective Service Building	0.1 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000850 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodbury County	All 64 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.