Elgin Block, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 2008 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 225-231 Center St., Elgin, 52141
When was it listed? May 2008
Category. building
Township. Pleasant Valley township
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 08000374 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Elgin Block, The between 2006 and 2011, burning about 68 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	6

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
8 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1028 FILMORE RD., ELGIN, IA, IA
15 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	7257 GOLDEN ROAD ELGIN, IA 52141, IOWA

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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 Elgin Block, The: 9 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Baird Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Clermont Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Durscher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Miller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Hanson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Patterson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Peterson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elgin, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	1 hurt, $30,000	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Elgin	$35,000	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Elgin	$10,000	Hail stripped plants and covered the ground.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$5,000	Numerous trees were blown down in Elgin.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	$5,000	no account filed
September 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Tree damage was reported across eastern part of the county.
April 2014	Hail	Elgin	-	Golf ball sized hail fell in Elgin.
May 2011	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Clermont Public School	3.0 miles	1995
Union Sunday School	3.2 miles	1974
Bigler Building	3.3 miles	1995
Church of the Saviour Episcopal Church and David Henderson Statue	3.5 miles	2000
Abraham Lincoln Statue and Park	3.7 miles	2000
Montauk	3.9 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000374 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fayette County	All 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.