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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Louisa County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mellinger Memorial Library
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
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. 11 East Division Street, Morning Sun, 52640
- When was it listed? September 2024
- Category. building
- Township. Morning Sun township
- National Register reference number. 100010863 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mellinger Memorial Library between 2008 and 2017, burning about 58 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | GRANDVIEW FIRE DEPT. |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mellinger Memorial Library: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalzell Quarry | Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Morning Sun Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morning Sun, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2003 | Hail | Morning Sun | $4,000,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Morning Sun | $200,000 | Path narrowed to 50 yards |
| March 2006 | Hail | Morning Sun | $30,000 | At the fire station |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morning Sun | $25,000 | Winds estimated to be 65 mph destroyed a barn just east of Morning Sun, IA around 12:10 am. Some new corn was also blown over. |
| October 2024 | Hail | Morning Sun | - | A public report relayed a train spotter. The time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morning Sun | - | A large tree was blown down, blocking the road at teh intersection of 46th Street and L Avenue. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Morning Sun | - | Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of parts of Louisa County June 12. Some small streams near Morning Sun, IA flooded out of their banks. |
| October 2000 | Lightning | Morning Sun | - | Lightning set a telephone pole on fire. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morning Sun | - | A thunderstorm gust of 60 mph blew a Sheriff's squad car into the opposite lane of traffic in rural Morning Sun. |
| April 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Morning Sun | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bethel Church | 3.6 miles | 1979 |
| Fairview Church and Cemetery | 5.5 miles | 2023 | |
 | Louisa County Courthouse | 6.8 miles | 1981 |
 | Commercial Hotel | 6.9 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010863 in Record Group 79. |
| Louisa County | All 8 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.