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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Allamakee County · listed in 2021 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Yellow River State Forest Fire Tower
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Fire Tower Rd., Yellow River State Forest, Harpers Ferry, 52146
- When was it listed? September 2021
- Category. structure
- Township. Fairview township
- National Register reference number. 100006909 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Yellow River State Forest Fire Tower between 2006 and 2018, burning about 158 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 70 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Yellow River State Forest Fire Tower: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazell Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this property
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harpers Ferry, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harpers Ferry | $5,000 | Numerous trees were reported down. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Harpers Ferry | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harpers Ferry | $2,000 | Trees were blown down across a road north of Harpers Ferry. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Harpers Ferry | - | The public reported quarter sized hail in Harpers Ferry. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Harpers Ferry | - | In Harpers Ferry, 3.2 inches of rain fell. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Harpers Ferry | - | Up to half dollar sized hail fell in Harpers Ferry. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harpers Ferry | - | A tree branch 4 inches in diameter was broken and rain totaled just under 3 inches. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Harpers Ferry | - | A rainfall total of 4.5 inches was reported. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Harpers Ferry | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Harpers Ferry | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Harpers Ferry | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harpers Ferry | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Harpers Ferry | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monsrud Bridge | 5.8 miles | 1998 | |
 | Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church | 7.2 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006909 in Record Group 79. |
| Allamakee County | All 21 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.