Redfield GAR Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 1213 Thomas St., Redfield, 50233
When was it listed? November 2023
Category. building
Township. Union township
National Register reference number. 100009484 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Redfield GAR Hall between 2006 and 2018, burning about 176 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	7
Debris and open burning	4

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
2 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2359 OLD HWY 6 F-29 ROAD, IA
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 March 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Redfield GAR Hall: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Unknown	Flagstone	Past Producer
Bear Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bear Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dudley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Feller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Goodwin Brick and Tile Company	Clay	Past Producer
Redfield Pit	Clay	Producer
Redfield Plant	Clay	Producer
Talbot Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

27 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redfield, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
April 2007	Flood	Redfield	$500,000	no account filed
May 2007	Flood	Redfield	$50,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Redfield	$20,000	no account filed
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$15,000	Six to 8 inch diameter limbs blown down. A 12 inch diameter tree was also down.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$15,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Redfield	$15,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Redfield	$15,000	no account filed
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$10,000	Very large tree downed across the road. Power lines down as well.
June 2008	Flood	Redfield	$10,000	no account filed
July 2008	Flood	Redfield	$10,000	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$5,000	Emergency manager reported tree over powerline in Redfield.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$5,000	Public reported a 2 foot diameter tree fell on I Ave.
May 2005	Hail	Redfield	$5,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$5,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Redfield	$5,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Redfield	$5,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Redfield	$5,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$5,000	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$5,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	$2,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Redfield	$1,000	no account filed
October 2019	Heavy Rain	Redfield	-	CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.12 inches over the past 24 hours.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Redfield	-	CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.43 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2015	Funnel Cloud	Redfield	-	Trained spotter reported rotation and a funnel cloud 1/2 mile north of Redfield on Linden Rd.
June 2015	Hail	Redfield	-	Emergency Manager reported half dollar sized hail.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Redfield	-	Several 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were down near the high school.
May 2001	Hail	Redfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Dexter Community House	5.3 miles	1975
	John Wilson House	7.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009484 in Record Group 79.
Dallas County	All 19 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.