Hickman-Nietert-Odd Fellows Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 121 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 102-106 South Main Ave., Alburnett, 52202
When was it listed? November 2023
Category. building
Township. Otter Creek township
National Register reference number. 100009434 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hickman-Nietert-Odd Fellows Building between 2003 and 2006, burning about 42 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 March 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 November 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hickman-Nietert-Odd Fellows Building: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Park Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fishel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alburnett, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2000	Tornado (F1)	Alburnett	1 hurt, $50,000	A tornado touched down at Alburnett causing damage. The center section of the horse barn roof at Strand Arabian Stables was torn off. Sheet metal from the horse barn roof littered surrounding yards, and one woman was cut by the sheet metal. She was taken to St. Luke's Hospital where she was treated and released. There were about 45 horses on the grounds of the stables when the tornado hit, but incredibly none were hurt. A barn also collapsed along Lafayette Road. Ten cows were inside the barn, and one was killed. Damage was also found along East Otter Road. A house had it's roof damaged and siding taken off, and a small shed was destroyed. A minivan was pushed off of a driveway and had it's windows broken out. A garage door was also pushed in on a garage.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	$25,000	Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph resulted in a power outage in Alburnett, IA at 525 am CDT July 11.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	$25,000	Winds estimated to be 70 mph blew down several large trees damaging some homes. Time estimated.
April 2006	Hail	Alburnett	$8,000	no account filed
September 2018	Tornado (EF1)	Alburnett	$1,000	A NWS Survey Team determined a brief high end EF1 tornado, with estimated maximum wind speeds around 110 mph, snapped and uprooted hardwood trees at a farmstead. The tornado was embedded in a roughly quarter mile wide swath of straight line wind damage with estimated speeds of 80 to 90 mph.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	$1,000	Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew some branches down and ripped some shingles and siding off a home in Alburnett, IA around 640 pm April 5.
April 2024	Funnel Cloud	Alburnett	-	The Fire Department reported a funnel cloud just west of Alburnett.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	-	A citizen reported estimated high winds.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	-	A trained spotter reported several healthy large tree branches down, the time was estimated by radar.
June 2017	Hail	Alburnett	-	This report was received through social media.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	-	Tree limbs larger than 2 inches in diameter were blown down.
May 2014	Hail	Alburnett	-	Quarter sized hail fell about 6 miles west of Central City, IA around 500 pm CDT May 20.
May 2014	Hail	Alburnett	-	Quarter sized hail fell about 3 miles north of Alburnett, IA around 732 pm CDT May 20.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	-	Local broadcast media estimated wind speeds of 55 to 60 mph.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down several trees in Alburnett, IA at 813 pm CDT June 8.
April 2006	Hail	Alburnett	-	Golf ball sized hail.
May 2001	Hail	Alburnett	-	Quarter sized hail reported by trained storm spotter.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	-	Trees and large limbs downed.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Alburnett	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Alburnett	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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

6 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
Central City Commercial Historic District	6.2 miles	2003
Upper Paris Bridge	6.9 miles	1998
Terrace Park Historic District	7.7 miles	2006
Granger House	7.8 miles	1976
Marion Commercial Historic District	7.9 miles	2009
First Presbyterian Church of Marion, Iowa	7.9 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009434 in Record Group 79.
Linn County	All 121 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.