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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Poweshiek County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Brooklyn Opera House-Broadway Theatre
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 115 Jackson St., Brooklyn, 52211
- When was it listed? May 2021
- Category. building
- Also known as. Footlights in Farm Country: Iowa Opera Houses MPS
- Township. Bear Creek township
- National Register reference number. 100006522 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brooklyn Opera House-Broadway Theatre in 2011, burning about 3 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 400TH ST. AND HWY 21, IA |
Storms near this property
43 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brooklyn, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 24 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $75,000 | Many trees and tree limbs down across the city. Some trees on roofs. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $75,000 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Brooklyn | $50,000 | Three feet of standing water was observed in yards, with 2.5 feet of flowing water in another yard along the side of a shed. Ten inches of flowing water was flowing down the alley. Three and one half inches of rain fell in a short time. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Brooklyn | $40,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $20,000 | Many branches were downed. A gazebo was blown apart and debris strewn along a southwest to northeast path for about 75 feet. Some debris embedded 4 to 6 inches into the ground. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $10,000 | Measured at the Brooklyn Schoolnet site. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $10,000 | Tree damage was reported with winds estimated near 75 MPH. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Brooklyn | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Brooklyn | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Brooklyn | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $1,000 | Winds of 60 MPH blew down small branches. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $1,000 | Measured at the Brooklyn Schoolnet site. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Brooklyn | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Brooklyn | - | Public report of funnel cloud spotted along Interstate 80 looking south. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | - | Law enforcement reported damage to power lines in the area. |
| May 2018 | Heavy Rain | Brooklyn | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.08 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | - | Emergency manager reported estimated 60 to 65 mph winds at Brooklyn exit on I-80. |
| April 2013 | Heavy Rain | Brooklyn | - | Rainfall 1.26 inches. |
| April 2013 | Heavy Rain | Brooklyn | - | Rainfall of 3.32 inches in the past 24 hours. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Brooklyn | - | Water was briefly onto Highway F29 from a farm field. Water was shallow, of hydroplane depth. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Brooklyn | - | Rainfall amount of 3.19 inches was reported. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Brooklyn | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Brooklyn | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brooklyn | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Brooklyn | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Brooklyn | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Manatt House | 0.1 miles | 1997 |
 | Brooklyn Hotel | 0.1 miles | 1979 |
 | Kent Union Chapel and Cemetery | 5.5 miles | 2009 |
 | P. P. Raymond House | 5.9 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006522 in Record Group 79. |
| Poweshiek County | All 26 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.