Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“The Iowan's Hotel, now known as the Railroad Inn, is a historic building located in Essex, Iowa, United States. The town of Essex was established by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Iowan's Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Page County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.08001382- 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 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Iowan's Hotel
between 2009 and 2018, burning about 118 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
5
Debris and open burning
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
17 August 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
21 May 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
19 May 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
57006 241ST ST., TECHNICAL SERVICES. SEC 18 GRANT
21 April 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
15 April 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
24656 SANDHILL TRAIL, SECTION #17, GRANT TOWNSHIP,
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Iowan's Hotel: 2 producers, 2 past producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Essex, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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.
Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches fell over much of southwest Iowa during the late afternoon and overnight hours of June 4th and 5th. The heavy rain caused the East Nishnabotna River to flood northwest Page county. The river at Red Oak, which is just upstream in Montgomery county, crested at 21.9 feet around 845 am CDT on June 5th. Flood stage is 18 feet. The river at Red Oak was above flood stage from around 115 am until 430 pm on June 5th. The flooding in Page county damaged crop land and levees along the river, flooded a park and some basements in Shenandoah and took out a county road and bridge. The flooding also prompted the evacuation of a mobile home park in Shenandoah.
Emergency management reported that hail up to golf ball-size fell for 10 to 15 minutes in the Essex area. The hail for the most part came straight down with little if any wind.
A weak tornado caused damage to a barn, garage and other outbuildings on a farmstead southeast of Essex according to emergency management. Tree damage consistent with tornadoes was also noted in the area.
Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph destroyed a barn and machine shed in Essex. The wind damage could have been caused by a brief touchdown of a weak tornado as Doppler Radar showed strong rotation in the area.
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
2 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.
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.
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