South Jordan Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“South Jordan Cemetery, also known as the Black Cemetery or the Negro Cemetery, is a historic site located north of Moorhead in rural Monona County, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.”
Wikipedia article South Jordan Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Monona County · listed in 2021 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 33928 260th St., Moorhead, 51558
When was it listed? March 2021
Category. site
Township. Jordan township
National Register reference number. 100006221 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of South Jordan Cemetery between 2011 and 2015, burning about 350 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	2
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 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	25194 ORANGE AVE, IA
15 March 2015	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Monona County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorhead, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Hail	Moorhead	$5,000	no account filed
April 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Moorhead	-	A short-lived tornado developed in an agricultural field and moved generally northeast across fields and pastureland, damaging outbuildings of farmsteads near the intersection of 280th and Poplar Roads. The tornado appeared to dissipate in pastureland before reaching State Highway 183. Peak winds were estimated at 85 miles per hour. The tornado reached a maximum width of 100 yards, with an average width estimated at 50 yards.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Moorhead	-	Law enforcement reported trees and branches down.
June 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Moorhead	-	A NWS storm survey determined a tornado tracked around 7 miles southeast of the Turin area. The tornado touched down near county roads E60 and L14 producing sporadic tree damage. The tornado tracked north northeast hitting a farmstead along L14 uprooting trees, downing power lines and destroying a grain bin. The tornado then moved across the Loess Hills producing varying degrees of tree damage. After crossing county roads E54 and 277th street additional tree and farm outbuilding damage occurred. Part of a roof of a farm house was removed near 258th Street with outbuildings also damaged in that area. The tornado knocked down some power lines near county road L16 before lifting in that area. The average path width was determined to be around 300 yards.
May 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Moorhead	-	This tornado initially touched down in a grove of trees in a rural area southwest of Moorhead. As it tracked east it hit a farmstead causing house and outbuilding damage and also severely damaged a grove of walnut trees. Before the tornado lifted, it damaged two other separate groves of cottonwood trees and snapped a 3 foot diameter oak tree at its base and damaged a chicken coop at another farmstead. The path width of the tornado damage was generally less than 100 yards, although it reached a maximum width of around 200 yards.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Moorhead	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed some small tree limbs in town.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Moorhead	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of around 60 mph was reported near Moorhead.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Moorhead	-	Large tree limbs broken off.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Moorhead	-	Trees blown down.
August 2011	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Moorhead	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monona 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ingemann Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery	3.5 miles	2012
Mann School No. 2	4.9 miles	2001
Jones Creek Watershed Historic District	6.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006221 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monona County	All 11 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.