West Main Street Residential Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 2023 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 301-407 and 302-402 W. Main St., Wayland, 52654
When was it listed? October 2023
Category. district
Township. Jefferson township
National Register reference number. 100009485 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of West Main Street Residential Historic District in 2020, burning about 4 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	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 March 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Main Street Residential Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Bain Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Coppock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wayland Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayland, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2012	Tornado (EF2)	Wayland	$500,000	The tornado began near 120th street near Wayland in Henry County and moved northeast to near Crawfordsville in Washington County. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 10 minutes in Henry County. Damage along the path of the tornado included: several farm outbuildings destroyed, roof damage to homes, trees snapped, and power poles damaged. The most severe damage occurred near and to the northeast of Noble (Washington County) where several turkey farms sustained extensive damage and two large wooden truss power poles were snapped off. Two homes between Noble and Crawfordsville had the roof removed as well as the exterior walls on the upper floor. One of the homes had a car lofted and tumbled across the yard.
April 2003	Hail	Wayland	$100,000	no account filed
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wayland	$5,000	Winds estimated to be 70 mph blew a portion of a roof of a mobile home off near Wayland, IA. Time estimated.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wayland	$5,000	Downburst occurred over and immediately east of Wayland, Iowa. Several trees were downed including some that were 14 inches in diameter. One tree in town spared a direct hit on a house but took out the porch.
March 2026	Hail	Wayland	-	A trained spotter estimated hail sizes o f a quarter to ping pong ball-sized hail.
March 2026	Hail	Wayland	-	A member of the public reported golf ball sized hail via social media.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Wayland	-	What was likely rear flank downdraft (RFD) winds and a strong dust whirl or gustnado on this wind surge based on three videos. The damage was a destroyed old grain bin and three outbuilding roofs, branches snapped, a tree downed, and to the press box at the soccer field at the high school.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wayland	-	The Wayland Fire Chief reports that numerous trees were down in town. A few structures had their roofs ripped off and a horse born was destroyed in the area.
June 2014	Hail	Wayland	-	Law enforcement reported hail the size of quarters.
June 2014	Hail	Wayland	-	A trained spotter reported dime to quarter size hail.
June 2014	Hail	Wayland	-	A trained spotter reported dime to quarter size hail.
May 2014	Funnel Cloud	Wayland	-	A funnel came down briefly and went back up into clouds near Wayland, IA around 238 pm CDT May 27.
April 2012	Hail	Wayland	-	The public reported quarter size hail near Wayland.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Wayland	-	Heavy rains resulted in the flash flooding of some streets in Coppock, IA during the late evening of August 13 and early morning of August 14.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wayland	-	Winds estimated to be 65 mph blew down a tree on Mill Street in Coppock, IA.\|
March 2007	Hail	Wayland	-	Trained spotter reported dime to penny size hail.
March 2026	Hail	Wayland	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Wayland	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Wayland	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Wayland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Schantz, Christian K. and Margaret (Rich), House and Carpentry Shop	0.2 miles	2021
Samuel and Sarah Hulme House	4.8 miles	2019
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church	6.8 miles	1999
Swedesburg Historic Commercial District	6.9 miles	1999
Hult, Charles E., House, Summer Kitchen and Wood Shed	6.9 miles	1999
Red Ball Garage	6.9 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009485 in Record Group 79.
Henry County	All 54 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.