I.O.O.F. (International Order of Odd Fellows) Valley Junction Lodge Hall No. 604
Built in 1898 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
From the record
“Valley Junction Lodge Hall No. 604 is a historic building located in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Yeaton had the two-story brick commercial building constructed from 1897 to 1898.”
Wikipedia article I.O.O.F. Valley Junction Lodge Hall No. 604, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 208 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1898, Italianate architecture, by C.C. Cross.
National Register reference number. 100001793 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of I.O.O.F. (International Order of Odd Fellows) Valley Junction Lodge Hall No. 604
between 2006 and 2011, burning about 7 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
4
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 federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of I.O.O.F. (International Order of Odd Fellows) Valley Junction Lodge Hall No. 604: 5 producers, 2 past producers.
5 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
West Des Moines, the town this property stands in, in 72 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 34 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 heavy rain.
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.
Tornado touched down on southwest edge of West Des Moines at the Glen Oaks Golf Club and swept into an apartment complex. Track was intermittent following the destruction of a garage unit there.
Broadcast media relayed report of a large tree down near 63rd street and Railroad Avenue that also brought down a power line with it. Time estimated via radar.
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.
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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