I.O.O.F. Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Hall, located at 613-615 Iowa Avenue in the original commercial block of Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa, is an historic two-story pedimented red-brick building built for local members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Also known as the Odd Fellows Hall, it was used by Golden Rule Lodge No. 178, IOOF founded in 1869 and Guiding Star Encampment No. 68, IOOF, a higher body founded in 1874.”
Wikipedia article I.O.O.F. Hall (Dunlap, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harrison County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 613-615 Iowa Ave., Dunlap, 51558
When was it listed? June 2011
Category. building
Township. Allen township
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. F. A. Henninger
National Register reference number. 11000391 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of I.O.O.F. Hall between 2006 and 2018, burning about 543 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	8
Arson/incendiarism	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	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1299 LARADO, IA
21 November 2012	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 November 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunlap, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood. 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
March 2019	Flood	Dunlap	$2,200,000	Thiere was for flooding along the Boyer River. The river gauge at Logan, operated by the USGS, peaked at 25.33 feet at 7 pm on March 13th. Major flood stage is 25 feet. Preliminary information shows this peak is the highest on record. Portions of the town of Missouri Valley flooded from the flood. Highway 30 closed in Woodbine. A levee topped by floodwaters at 296th street in Missouri Valley, on the east side of the levee around 2 miles northeast of town. Also 2 breaches in the levee around Willow Creek. Evacuations took place in Missouri Valley. Property damage totals are for the entire county from flooding of the Boyer River, Willow Creek, and Missouri River.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	$50,000	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Dunlap	-	Public report of hail estimated at 1.75 inches in diameter.
April 2026	Hail	Dunlap	-	Emergency management report of hail estimated at 1.75 inches in diameter.
April 2026	Hail	Dunlap	-	Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 1.75 inches in diameter with all windows broken on the west side of a home.
April 2026	Hail	Dunlap	-	Local business reported approximately quarter size hail in Dunlap, IA.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	-	Law enforcement reported a large tree limb on US 30 blocking the road.
May 2013	Hail	Dunlap	-	Although most of the hail was pea to nickel-size, a few stones reached quarter-size.
August 2011	Hail	Dunlap	-	Hail, a few stones around baseball-size, caused vehicle and home damage in the Dunlap area.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	-	A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	-	Thunderstorm winds which were estimated at 70 mph by a trained spotter flipped a fuel tank over and knocked down medium size tree limbs.
June 2008	Flood	Dunlap	-	Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches across much of Harrison county caused the Boyer river to flood. The flood waters crossed Highway 30 northeast of Logan and in the Woodbine area causing its closure between Logan and Denison. Seven or eight homes in east Logan were flooded, along with a business, the school's athletic field and railroad tracks. Many county roads and agricultural lowlands were also flooded.\|\|The Boyer River at Logan crested at 24.8 feet around noon CDT on June 8, flood stage is 19 feet. The river at Logan was above flood stage from around 545 am on June 8 until 715 am on June 9.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	-	Numerous tree branches were downed near Dunlap, including one around 8 inches in diameter.
May 2007	Flood	Dunlap	-	Rainfall of 5 to 8 inches fell over much of Harrison county over the weekend of May 4th through the 6th. Logan reported nearly 8 inches from this event. The heavy rain caused the Boyer River to flood on May 6th. The Boyer River at Logan reached a crest just above 21 feet around 115 pm cdt May 6th, flood stage is 19 feet. The river at Logan was above flood stage from 1000 am until around 6 pm on May 6th.
June 2016	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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

1 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
	William Haner Polygonal Barn	2.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000391 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harrison County	All 13 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.
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.