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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tama County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
King Tower Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 1701 East 5th St. / Business 30, Tama, 52339
- When was it listed? February 2020
- Category. district
- Township. Tama township
- National Register reference number. 100004998 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
196 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of King Tower Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,656 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 82 |
| Debris and open burning | 74 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Smoking | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Sac and Fox Agency | TRANSFORM |
| 15 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sac and Fox Agency | DAVENPORT |
| 19 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sac and Fox Agency | 1340 DOG |
| 5 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Sac and Fox Agency | 120 BATTLEGROUND |
| 24 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 June 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Sac and Fox Agency | DAVENPORT |
| 21 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | TOLEDO FD |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of King Tower Historic District: 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 |
Storms near this property
41 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tama, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 26 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 tornado, 3 flood. The reports record 25 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | 25 hurt, $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flood | Tama | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Tama | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $25,000 | Widespread tree damage was reported. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $10,000 | A large tree branch was down on a power line at the Meskwaki Settlement. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $10,000 | Large 12 to 14 inch diameter tree down. Six inch diameter limbs down around town. |
| August 2009 | Flood | Tama | $10,000 | Highway E49 had water over the road near H Ave. |
| August 2009 | Flood | Tama | $10,000 | Flooding was reported near Battleground Rd and Meskwaki Road. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Tama | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were down in Tama and Toledo. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Tama | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Tama | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Tama | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $2,000 | Wind speed was measured by a home weather station. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $1,000 | Report received from the Tama RWIS site. |
| July 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Tama | $1,000 | Tornado touched down briefly in an open area. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Tama | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Tama | - | Water running over roads and vehicles stranded in flood waters across portions of the Meskwaki Nation Settlement including Battleground Rd near the PowWow Grounds, Meskwaki Rd at Battleground Rd and G Ave South. Reported by the Meskwaki Nation Police Department via social media. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | - | Trees reported down in Tama and Toledo. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tama | - | Media reported a tree down on the golf course and other smaller limbs down around town. |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Tama | - | Brief spinup tornado |
| July 2023 | Hail | Tama | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Tama | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Tama | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lincoln Highway Bridge | 0.4 miles | 1978 |
 | Hope Fire Company Engine House | 2.4 miles | 1983 |
 | First United Brethren Church | 2.4 miles | 2017 |
 | Wieting Theater | 2.5 miles | 1979 |
 | Tama County Courthouse | 2.5 miles | 1981 |
 | Tama County Jail | 2.5 miles | 1981 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004998 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.