Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“The Iowana Hotel, now known simply as The Iowana, is a historic building located in Creston, Iowa, United States. Because Creston was on the mainline of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and it was a divisional headquarters, it received a steady flow of visitors.”
Wikipedia article Iowana Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.09000298- 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
37 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Iowana Hotel
between 2006 and 2020, burning about 538 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
Debris and open burning
18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Smoking
4
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Creston, the town this property stands in, in 133 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 58 thunderstorm wind, 41 hail, 15 heavy rain, 8 flash flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Emergency management found damage along this path in north central Union County. The tornado formed about 5 miles northeast of Creston and remained in rural areas of the county. It impacted 3 different farmsteads producing up to EF1 damage to outbuildings at one of the sites. The tornado dissipated a few miles northwest of the northern end of Three Mile Lake.
Tornado touched down briefly west of Creston. Damage was done to an attached two-car breezeway and tore it away from the house. There was little apparent damage to the car inside.
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
3 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.
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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