Belfrage, W.L. and Winnie (Woodford), Farmstead Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
From the record
“The W.L. and Winnie (Woodfield) Belfrage Farmstead Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located south of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.”
Wikipedia article W.L. and Winnie (Woodfield) Belfrage Farmstead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Woodbury County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 100001819 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 2008
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Belfrage, W.L. and Winnie (Woodford), Farmstead Historic District
between 2008 and 2014, burning about 293 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Arson/incendiarism
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Belfrage, W.L. and Winnie (Woodford), Farmstead Historic District: 1 unknown, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Sergeant Bluff, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado.
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.
Thunderstorm winds overturned semi trucks on Interstate 29. The winds also caused tree damage, including large trees blown down. A few homes were damaged by falling trees or tree debris.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, with branches and other tree debris littering streets. The winds also blew down power lines and caused power outages.
A video showed a brief tornado crossing Interstate 29 between Sergeant Bluff and Port Neal. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating.
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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