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One of 18 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Home Oil Service Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 108 4th Street SE, State Center, 50247
- When was it listed? June 2025
- Category. building
- Township. State Center township
- National Register reference number. 100011924 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
23 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Home Oil Service Station between 2006 and 2020, burning about 75 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 | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | 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 Home Oil Service Station: 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 62 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names State Center, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 24 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 9 heavy rain, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Tornado (F1) | State Center | $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F1) | State Center | $150,000 | Intermittent track |
| May 1998 | Hail | State Center | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | State Center | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | State Center | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | State Center | $30,000 | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | State Center | $25,000 | Water was reported flowing over Highway 30. |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | State Center | $25,000 | Water was reported flowing over Highway 30. In addition, water was flowing over Highway 65 near Zearing and just south of Colo. Numerous county roads have water over them. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | State Center | $20,000 | Tornado tracked across open country but did damage trees, sheds, and a grain bin. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $15,000 | Several ten inch limbs down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $15,000 | Part of a metal roof was blown off part of a car wash and a portion of a gas station canopy was blown off. A storage shed was pushed four feet off the foundation by high winds. |
| June 2011 | Hail | State Center | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | State Center | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | State Center | $10,000 | Emergency manager reported ping pong ball sized hail. |
| May 2010 | Hail | State Center | $10,000 | Marshall County EM relayed a report of quarter to walnut size hail covering the ground at State Center. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F1) | State Center | $10,000 | Tornado tracked through rural areas of Marshall County west of State Center. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | State Center | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | State Center | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | State Center | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $5,000 | Three power lines downed. Wind tied to outflow boundary ahead of the storm. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $5,000 | Pea to dime size hail with the wind. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | State Center | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | State Center | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | State Center | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $3,000 | Four to six inch tree branches down with power outages. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | State Center | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | State Center | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | State Center | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | State Center | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Trained spotter relayed 24 hr heavy rainfall of 3.75 inches. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Event total of 2.95 inches. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Public report via social media of 1.9 inches of rain between 4:45pm and 5:45pm CDT. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Public measured 1.95 inches of rain. Beginning time estimated by radar. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | State Center | - | Emergency manager reported significant damage in State Center with numerous cars blown off US 30 and flipped. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Marshall county Emergency Manager measured 4.20 inches of total rainfall for the event. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Updated 24 hour rainfall amount of approximately 6.40 inches reported by the county Emergency Manager. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Emergency manager reported heavy rainfall of 6.38 inches storm total. |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Rainfall total was 4.94 inches. |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | State Center | - | Rainfall total was 3.94 inches. |
| April 2010 | Hail | State Center | - | A few stones of nickel size; pea size hail nearly covered the ground. |
| April 2015 | Hail | State Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | State Center | - | 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Center Commercial Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2002 | |
 | Watson's Grocery | 0.2 miles | 1998 |
| August and Josephine Riemenschneider Farmstead | 0.4 miles | 2022 | |
| Louis F. and Emma M. (Edler) Wohlert House-Emma Wohlert Maternity Home | 0.5 miles | 2024 | |
 | Dobbin Round Barn | 2.8 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011924 in Record Group 79. |
| Marshall County | All 18 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.