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Photograph of Lincoln Township Mausoleum
Photograph by Keith Snyder, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lincoln Township Mausoleum

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Lincoln Township Mausoleum, also known as the Zearing Mausoleum, is a historic building located in Zearing, Iowa, United States. It is situated along the western edge of Zearing Cemetery, near a windbreak of trees.”

Wikipedia article Lincoln Township Mausoleum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Story 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. Cty Rd. E18, N end of Pearl St., Zearing, 50278
  • When was it listed? September 2007
  • Category. building
  • Township. Lincoln township
  • National Register reference number. 07001004 - 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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Township Mausoleum between 2006 and 2013, burning about 2 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 June 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 October 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Story County

Storms near this property

40 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zearing, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 8 hail, 4 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
September 2018LightningZearing$1,000,000A local photographer came across a smoldering wind turbine that had been struck by lightning overnight. It also had previous damage from a tornado earlier in the year.
May 2013Flash FloodZearing$250,000Many roads in the east part of the county experiencing flooding. Water over parts of Highway 65 in Zearing.
May 2013Flash FloodZearing$100,000NWS CO-OP observer and Emergency Manager report flash flooding in and near Zearing. Highway 65 is under water in two places, including south 140th St. County pavement E18 is closed in several places east and west of Zearing.
May 2013Flash FloodZearing$100,000Minerva Creek in Zearing out of its banks and flooding parts of town.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindZearing$100,000High winds damaged farm buildings and crops.
August 2004Tornado (F1)Zearing$75,000Tornado tracked across fields northeast of Zearing and damaged buildings and crops.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindZearing$50,000Numerous 40 to 50 foot trees down in Zearing.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindZearing$30,000no account filed
August 2010Flash FloodZearing$25,000Water running over Highway 65 just south of Zearing.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Zearing$20,000This is a multiple segment tornado with three segments that passed through portions of Story, Marshall and Hardin counties. This is the first segment in Story county. This longer track tornado formed about a mile and a half east of Zearing where a farmstead sustained roof damage to multiple buildings. The relatively narrow tornado continued to the NE, with RFD winds destroying 6 grain bins and an outbuilding just south of the track. The tornado then passed into Marshall county.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindZearing$10,000Coop observer reported several big tree limbs down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindZearing$10,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindZearing$5,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindZearing$5,000no account filed
October 2004HailZearing$2,000no account filed
May 2025HailZearing-Pea to nickel sized hail with a few stones up to quarter sized.
July 2024Heavy RainZearing-Reports of 3.5 to 4 inches of rain in several locations around Zearing.
July 2024HailZearing-MPING report of 1-inch hail. Time of occurrence estimated from radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindZearing-Several tree limbs down with the biggest being 15 inches in diameter.
August 2022HailZearing-Golf ball sized hail ongoing at time of report.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindZearing-Widespread one to two inch diameter tree limbs down with larger old branches down. A few windows in town were blown out due to wind driven hail and hail was piled several inches deep in a few locations.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindZearing-Pictures with damage to siding and roofs consistent with damage from wind driven hail.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindZearing-An 18 inch diameter tree snapped. Image posted on social media, time estimated via radar.
June 2021Funnel CloudZearing-Fire Department reported a funnel cloud.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindZearing-A trained spotter reported damage to trees and grain bins. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindZearing-Emergency manager relayed trained spotter reports of 60 to 70 mph winds.
May 2017HailZearing-Coop observer reported quarter sized hail.
June 2017HailZearing-Coop observer reported quarter sized hail. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindZearing-Coop observer reported estimated wind gusts to 60 mph or more. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
September 2016Heavy RainZearing-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.25 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2016Heavy RainZearing-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.76 inches.
August 2016Heavy RainZearing-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.62 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2016Heavy RainZearing-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.78 inches over the last 24 hours.
December 2015Heavy RainZearing-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 4.55 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
April 2014Heavy RainZearing-Storm total rainfall for the two days was 2.55 inches.
June 2014Heavy RainZearing-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.44 inches.
May 2013Heavy RainZearing-Twenty four hour rainfall total of 1.33 inches, total 3.17 over two days.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Zearing-Brief landspout briefly touched the ground. Numerous other funnels.
August 2022HailZearing-no account filed
June 2005HailZearing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Story 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 07001004 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Story CountyAll 37 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.