BlockFrom the record
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Jasper County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fred Maytag Park Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- Address. 301 S 22th Ave W, Newton, 50208
- When was it listed? November 2010
- Category. district
- Township. Newton township
- National Register reference number. 10000917 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fred Maytag Park Historic District in 2009, burning about 50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
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 Fred Maytag Park Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 120 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newton, the town this property stands in, in 120 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 50 hail, 38 heavy rain, 20 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 2003 | Hail | Newton | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Newton | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $60,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $50,000 | Large tree limbs down around town with homes damaged. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Newton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flood | Newton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flood | Newton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flood | Newton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Newton | $25,000 | Roofs off of outbuildings along with tree damage. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Newton | $20,000 | Trained spotter reported half dollar sized hail, via social media. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Lightning | Newton | $12,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Newton | $10,000 | Public reported nickel to quarter size hail in downtown Newton. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Newton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Newton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Newton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Newton | $8,000 | no account filed |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $5,000 | Trained spotter reported estimated wind gusts of 65 mph. Damage included a flag ripped off the pole and the door of a business ripped open. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $5,000 | Tree damage occurred in the town of Newton. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $5,000 | Newton AWOS reported winds gusts of 51 kts at 1034 PM. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Newton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Newton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Newton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Newton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Newton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Newton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Newton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Newton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Newton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $1,000 | Report received from a KCCI schoolnet site. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Newton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Lightning | Newton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Newton | - | Considerable flooding ongoing in trailer park. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newton | - | Social media report of tree that is partially down. |
| June 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Newton | - | This tornado was observed by several individuals and remained in rural cropland. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU rating. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Newton | - | Image received via social media. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Newton | - | Image received via social media. Timing based on radar. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Newton Downtown Historic District | 0.7 miles | 2014 |
| First Avenue West Historic District | 0.7 miles | 2020 | |
 | Jasper County Courthouse | 0.7 miles | 1981 |
| First Avenue East Historic District | 0.8 miles | 2020 | |
 | August H. Bergman House | 0.8 miles | 1989 |
 | St. Stephen's Episcopal Church | 0.8 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000917 in Record Group 79. |
| Jasper County | All 16 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.