Big Stone Mills

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Winneshiek County · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 113 N. Main St., Spillville, 52144
Category. building
Also known as. Flour Milling in Iowa MPS
Township. Sumner township
National Register reference number. 09000516 - 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

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Big Stone Mills between 2008 and 2020, burning about 323 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
Debris and open burning	5

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
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 May 2012	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 April 2020	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Big Stone Mills: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Horseshoe Bend Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Protivin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Protivin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek County

Storms near this property

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spillville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 flood, 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Spillville	$3,000	Lots of trees were damaged in Spillville.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Spillville	$3,000	Numerous trees were blown down in Spillville.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Spillville	$500	A couple of trees were knocked down.
August 2025	Flood	Spillville	-	Heavy rain during the middle of August allowed the Turkey River at Spillville to rise into flood stage during the morning on August 18th. The site crested at 11.23 ft in moderate flood stage during the early afternoon on August 18th before falling below flood stage during the early morning hours on August 20th.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Spillville	-	Eight-inch diameter tree limbs were reported down.
August 2021	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over six feet above the flood stage at 15.1 feet on the 28th.
June 2020	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from the heavy rains associated with Tropical Depression Cristobal pushed the Turkey River out of its banks twice in Spillville. The first crest was almost two and half feet above the flood stage at 11.4 feet on the 10th. The second crest was around a quarter of a foot above the flood stage at 9.23 feet, also on the 10th.
March 2019	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over three feet above the flood stage at 12.1 feet on March 15th.
May 2019	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.13 feet.
June 2019	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested almost two feet above the flood stage at 10.82 feet.
September 2018	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested a half foot above the flood stage at 9.5 feet on September 4th. The river briefly fell below flood stage before going out of its banks again. The second crest was over four and a half feet above the flood stage at 13.67 feet on September 6th.
May 2018	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over five feet above the flood stage at 14.42 feet on the 4th. Several fire departments and law enforcement agencies help residents sandbag against the flooding.
September 2018	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 9.66 feet on September 21st.
October 2018	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 9.8 feet on October 10th.
May 2017	Hail	Spillville	-	Quarter to walnut sized hail fell in Spillville.
September 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Heavy rains in the upper reaches of the Turkey River caused a short period of flooding in Spillville. The river crested just over the flood stage at 9.14 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested almost five above the flood stage at 13.73 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested five feet above the flood stage at 13.99 feet. This was the second time in two days that flooding occurred at this site. It had crested at 9.14 feet the day before.
August 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over eleven feet above the flood stage at 20.25 feet. This established a new crest of record.
July 2016	Flood	Spillville	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.21 feet.
May 2002	Hail	Spillville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Spillville	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Spillville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Spillville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winneshiek 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wenzil Taylor Building	1.1 miles	1979
Fort Atkinson Bridge	4.6 miles	1998
Calmar Passenger Depot	5.9 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000516 in Record Group 79.
Winneshiek County	All 36 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.