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One of 4 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hotel Rea
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 207 W. State St., Corydon, 50060
- When was it listed? May 2020
- Category. building
- Township. Corydon township
- National Register reference number. 100004426 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
8 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Rea between 2009 and 2019, burning about 20 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 December 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | ALLERTON FD |
| 8 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1773 120TH, IA |
| 28 January 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
32 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corydon, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 3 hail, 3 flash flood. 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Corydon | $150,000 | Three feet of water was reported running over over county J22 east of Millerton. |
| August 2004 | Lightning | Corydon | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $40,000 | A 4 foot diameter tree uprooted, along with several 10 to 20 inch tree limbs being blown down. This included many hard wood trees down in the town of Corydon. One house had several shingles and a half sheet of plywood blown off at the chimney and one large tree down. |
| July 1997 | Flood | Corydon | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $20,000 | Emergency manager in Wayne county reported a pole barn downed from strong winds. Time and location estimated from radar. Delayed report. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $20,000 | Several trees down, plate glass windows blown out and trees onto homes. Power lines also blown down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $15,000 | Several 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs were down, along with power lines down. Some power outages were reported in the town of Corydon. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $15,000 | Winds were reported from KCCI TV schoolnet site. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Corydon | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $10,000 | Large trees were blown over into the road in south Corydon. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | Emergency Manager reported 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | Public reported a large pine tree snapped. Time estimated by radar. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Corydon | $3,000 | Nickel to quarter size hail fell for 7.5 minutes. Hail accumulated to a depth of 3 inches in parts of the city. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Corydon | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Corydon | $1,000 | Brief touchdown |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corydon | - | Several trees and power lines down. Time estimated by radar. |
| September 2019 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.70 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| November 2015 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | Mesonet station reported heavy rainfall of 1.51 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | Rainfall of 4.25 inches reported via Facebook. |
| April 2013 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | Overnight total 2.50 inches. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Corydon | - | Two inches of rain was reported. |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | W. H. Tedford House | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
| Nelson Round Barn | 3.8 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004426 in Record Group 79. |
| Wayne County | All 4 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.
- 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.