WCF & N Center Point Depot and Substation

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The WCF & N Center Point Depot and Substation, also known as the Center Point Depot Museum, is a historic building located in Center Point, Iowa, United States. The Mission Revival building was constructed in 1914 by the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway, an interurban line that ran between the Waterloo - Cedar Falls area and Cedar Rapids.”
Wikipedia article WCF & N Center Point Depot and Substation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 121 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1914.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 700 Washington St., Center Point, 52213
When was it listed? March 2018
Category. building
Township. Washington township
When was it built? 1914
National Register reference number. 100002185 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of WCF & N Center Point Depot and Substation between 2009 and 2015, burning about 4 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	3
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 May 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	5833 32ND AVE, SHELLSBURG, IA, IOWA
6 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of WCF & N Center Point Depot and Substation: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Sweeting Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Alice Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Oliphant Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pork Chop Hill Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Point, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 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
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Point	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Minnesota Railroad: Walker Station	7.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002185 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn County	All 121 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.