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Armour Creameries Poultry House

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Armour Creameries Poultry House, also known as the Armour warehouse and the Garst Company warehouse, is a historic building located in Coon Rapids, Iowa, United States. Jens Jensen sold his regional creamery business to Armour and Company in June 1928.”

Wikipedia article Armour Creameries Poultry House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1928.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 218 5th Ave. S., Coon Rapids, 50058
  • When was it listed? November 2011
  • Category. building
  • Township. Union township
  • When was it built? 1928
  • National Register reference number. 11000815 - 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

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Armour Creameries Poultry House between 2007 and 2011, burning about 67 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/undetermined5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 October 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources5008 290TH , IA

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Armour Creameries Poultry House: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alex Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H B JenelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
P. BrutscheSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Viola HartSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

39 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coon Rapids, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2015Flash FloodCoon Rapids$100,000Emergency Manager reported water over Highway 141 near Coon Rapids, and that it is not a place that normally flash floods.
June 2013Flash FloodCoon Rapids$75,000Water over Highway 141 west of Coon Rapids.
June 2013Flash FloodCoon Rapids$50,000Water was over A Avenue along the Guthrie/Carroll County line.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids$50,000Strong winds blew a barn over.
May 2004HailCoon Rapids$25,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids$25,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids$20,000Measurement was taken by the Coon Rapids Bayard Schoolnet site.
May 2004HailCoon Rapids$15,000no account filed
May 2004HailCoon Rapids$15,000no account filed
August 2007Tornado (EF0)Coon Rapids$10,000Telephone poles were down as a result of the tornado. The tornado moved from Carroll County into Greene County.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids$10,000no account filed
May 2004HailCoon Rapids$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids$2,000Large limbs down across the town of Coon Rapids.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids$2,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids$1,000no account filed
July 1998Tornado (F0)Coon Rapids$100no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids-Personal weather station gust to 60 mph.
May 2024HailCoon Rapids-Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail west of Coon Rapids. Location estimated by radar.
June 2022Heavy RainCoon Rapids-A 24 hour rain total of 3.80 inches.
August 2020HailCoon Rapids-Public report of quarter to ping pong ball sized hail.
June 2018Heavy RainCoon Rapids-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.30 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2018Heavy RainCoon Rapids-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.20 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2016Heavy RainCoon Rapids-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.9 inches.
September 2015Heavy RainCoon Rapids-Official NWS observation from Coon Rapids LARC of 3.2 inches of heavy rainfall from approximately 8pm to 9pm.
September 2015Heavy RainCoon Rapids-Official NWS Observation from the Coon Rapids LARC of 4.7 inches of heavy rainfall over the last 2 hours.
September 2015Heavy RainCoon Rapids-Mesonet site recorded heavy storm total rainfall of 5.70 inches. End time based on observations.
June 2013Heavy RainCoon Rapids-Rainfall of 5.2 inches in past few hours.
December 2021HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCoon Rapids-no account filed
June 2014HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
June 2013HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
June 2013HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
May 2010HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
July 2008HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
April 2002HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
May 2001HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
May 1997HailCoon Rapids-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Coon Rapids-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Coon Rapids Bridge0.4 miles

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000815 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll CountyAll 20 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.