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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
First National Bank of Pomeroy
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 101 South Main St. (originally Otsego Street), Pomeroy, 50575
- When was it listed? June 2023
- Category. building
- Township. Butler township
- National Register reference number. 100009076 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of First National Bank of Pomeroy in 2005, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Storms near this property
32 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomeroy, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 2 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 2010 | Heavy Rain | Pomeroy | $50,000 | Six inches of water standing in streets. Half inch diameter hail and wind gusts to 20 MPH. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Pomeroy | $50,000 | Underpass and viaduct flooding along Highway 4. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $25,000 | Numerous large tree branches greater than 6 inches in diameter were down. Loose metal sheeting was observed blowing through the streets. |
| October 2013 | Hail | Pomeroy | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $15,000 | Off Duty Sioux Falls NWS employee reported trees and street signs down in town. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Pomeroy | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $2,000 | Large tree limb down, chair blown off the deck and a power transformer blown. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $2,000 | Small branches blown down with power knocked out. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Pomeroy | $2,000 | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pomeroy | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Pomeroy | $100 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Pomeroy | - | Tornado developed east of Pomeroy and moved north passing into Pocahontas county shortly after forming. The tornado remained in open fields in Calhoun county and did not impact any damage indicators, hence the EFU rating for this portion of the path. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | Public reported dime to quarter sized hail at the Casey's in Pomeroy. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Pomeroy | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 5.5 inches. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Pomeroy | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 2.05 inches. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | Trained spotter reported hail increasing in size to quarters. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | Trained spotter reported nickel to penny sized hail. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | Trained spotter reported dime to nickel sized hail. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | Trained spotter reported one inch hail. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | Trained spotter reported one inch hail. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Pomeroy | - | Calhoun County Law Enforcement reports streets in Pomeroy inundated as well as many county roads. Highway 4 in Pomeroy had standing water 2 feet deep in underpasses. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Pomeroy | - | Highway 7 closed at underpass in Pomeroy due to flooding. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Pomeroy | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009076 in Record Group 79. |
| Calhoun County | All 13 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.