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One of 43 National Register listings published here for Pottawattamie County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Masonic Temple of Walnut
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026.
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. 304 Antique City Drive, Walnut, 51535
- When was it listed? February 2026
- Category. building
- National Register reference number. 100012740 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
8 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Masonic Temple of Walnut between 2006 and 2017, burning about 137 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 | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 540TH & LANSING RD, IA |
| 15 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 3500 WHITE POLE RD, LINCOLN TWP, IOWA |
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 Masonic Temple of Walnut: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lewis Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
27 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Personal weather station measured gust of 60 mph, likely due to the evaporating of anvil precipitation helping to mix down a strong low-level jet. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | The office received a report from the public of an empty grain bin that had been blown off its foundation. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Walnut | - | Public reported 1-inch hail. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Walnut | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Walnut | - | Broadcast media relayed a report from the public of nearly 7-inches of rain just south of Walnut and that it was still raining heavily at the time. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Walnut | - | Trained Spotter reported 1 inch hail. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Iowa State University research station measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Iowa mesonet site measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Walnut | - | Quarter size hail reported 1 mile west of Walnut. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Large tree limbs blown down in Walnut and one semi-truck blown off of I-80 north of Walnut. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Thunderstorms wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph uprooted several trees and destroyed a barn east of Walnut. Corn was flattened in the area as well. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Walnut | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell for about 5 minutes in Walnut. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed some limbs near Walnut. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph blew a truck over on Interstate 80 just north of Walnut. This was from the same storm that produced the tornado that tracked across this area around the same time, and it could have been from rear flank downdraft winds wrapping around the tornado. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph destroyed a barn 5 miles south of Walnut. This was from the same storm that produced the tornado that lifted just to the northwest of this damage report. |
| June 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Walnut | - | Reported by ham radio operator near Walnut. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at around 60 mph by a ham radio operator. |
| July 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Walnut | - | A brief touchdown of a very narrow and short-lived tornado. The storm spotter that reported it said it appeared and then dissipated in a matter of 15 or 20 seconds, "it was very snake-like in appearance" according to the spotter. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | Tree limbs up to a foot in diameter were downed plus shingles blown off a roof. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Walnut | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012740 in Record Group 79. |
| Pottawattamie County | All 43 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.