First United Brethren Church

Built in 1946 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“First United Brethren Church, also known as Otterbein Methodist Church, is a historic building located in Toledo, Iowa, United States. Built in 1946, this building replaced an 1886 sanctuary that was destroyed in a fire in 1943.”
Wikipedia article First United Brethren Church (Toledo, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tama County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1946, modern architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 201 E. High St., Toledo, 52342
When was it listed? May 2017
Category. building
Township. Toledo township
When was it built? 1946
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 100000969 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of First United Brethren Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,439 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 were 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	142
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	111
Arson/incendiarism	49
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	3
Smoking	3
Firearms and explosives use	1
Other causes	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
4 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	TRANSFORM
25 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sac and Fox Agency	3024 F AVE
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sac and Fox Agency	DAVENPORT
3 August 2019	Fireworks	3.0 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	163 CIRCLE
26 August 2004	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Sac and Fox Agency	F AVE WIRE
25 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sac and Fox Agency	LINCOLN
2 August 2013	Smoking	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Tama County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of First United Brethren Church: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Manatt's Sand and Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tama County

Storms near this property

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toledo, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 11 heavy rain, 8 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$1,000,000	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$300,000	A 180 foot radio tower was snapped with many trees down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$200,000	Trees and power lines down all over the place.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$150,000	Barn and brick silo flattened. Many trees down, some 3 feet in diameter.
May 2008	Flood	Toledo	$100,000	Numerous roads were under water around the county.
August 2000	Lightning	Toledo	$60,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$20,000	no account filed
July 2010	Flash Flood	Toledo	$10,000	An inch of rain fell in under an hour, causing minor flash flooding.
June 2008	Hail	Toledo	$10,000	Winds were also estimated at 60 to 70 MPH.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$10,000	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Toledo	$10,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	Delayed report of power pole damage north of Montour.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	Trees were blown down in Toledo.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$5,000	no account filed
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$3,000	Trees down in the area, and the corn was blown down.
May 1997	Hail	Toledo	$3,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$3,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$2,000	Four to five inch diameter walnut tree branches were blown down by high wind.
June 2008	Hail	Toledo	$2,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$2,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	$1,000	Toledo Fire Department reports wind gusting to 60 MPH about 2 miles north of Toledo.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down in Meskwaki area.
May 2024	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Coop observer reported 24 hr heavy rainfall of 3.33 inches.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Public measured 2.7 inches of rain. Beginning time estimated by radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	Emergency manager reported wind gusts over 70 mph and that a tree fell on the office.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Toledo	-	A coop observer reported a 60 by 90 foot machine shed completely demolished. Neighbors empty grain bins were blown across highway 63. Several large trees are snapped or uprooted. A 78 mph wind gust was reported before the weather station gave out.
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.28 inches. Beginning and ending times estimated from radar.
May 2019	Hail	Toledo	-	Emergency manager reported golf ball hail at Highway 63 and 275th St.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.07 inches over the last 24 hours. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.02 inches.
December 2015	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.48 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Rainfall during the past 24 hours was 2.02 inches.
May 2013	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Twenty four hour rainfall total of 1.47 inches.
May 2013	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Rainfall since midnight was 3.92 inches.
June 2013	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Rainfall total for the previous 24 hours ending 0600 CST was 1.89 inches.
July 2010	Heavy Rain	Toledo	-	Rainfall of 1.36 inches received from KWWL.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Toledo	-	Tornado touched down briefly in open fields northeast of Tama. No damage occurred.
May 2023	Hail	Toledo	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Toledo	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Toledo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tama 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
Hope Fire Company Engine House	under 500 feet	1983
Tama County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1981
Wieting Theater	0.1 miles	1979
Tama County Jail	0.1 miles	1981
Lincoln Highway Bridge	2.3 miles	1978
King Tower Historic District	2.4 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000969 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tama County	All 14 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.