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Chautauqua Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Chautauqua Park Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Sac City, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”

Wikipedia article Chautauqua Park Historic District (Sac City, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Sac County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 106 Park Ave., Sac City, 50583
  • When was it listed? February 2014
  • Category. district
  • Township. Jackson township
  • National Register reference number. 13001138 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chautauqua Park Historic District in 2011, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined1

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
27 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1555 HIGHWAY 20, IA

Every fire recorded in Sac County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Chautauqua Park Historic District: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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
Buckley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hosteng PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sac County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Uren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sac County

Storms near this property

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sac City, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 heavy rain, 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996FloodSac City$75,000no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodSac City$50,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSac City$50,000no account filed
July 1998FloodSac City$50,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodSac City$50,000no account filed
June 1996FloodSac City$30,000no account filed
June 1996FloodSac City$30,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSac City$25,000no account filed
August 1995HailSac City$15,000no account filed
June 2008Flash FloodSac City$10,000Street flooding was reported.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSac City$10,000no account filed
June 1996FloodSac City$10,000no account filed
July 2003HailSac City$5,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindSac City$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSac City$5,000no account filed
July 2000HailSac City$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailSac City$3,000Hail reported to be dime to quarter size.
May 2008HailSac City$3,000no account filed
May 2008HailSac City$3,000no account filed
May 2008HailSac City$3,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSac City$2,000Several large tree limbs were downed.
June 2010HailSac City$1,000Nickel to quarter size hail in town.
August 2008HailSac City$1,000Nickel to quarter size hail fell in town.
August 2008HailSac City$1,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSac City$1,000no account filed
May 1998HailSac City$200no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSac City-Trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph and large branches down.
April 2025HailSac City-Report of lots of hail up to nickel sized.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSac City-Multiple branches up to 6 inches down across town with lone larger 12 inch branch down. Flattened corn outside of town. Delayed report, time estimated via radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSac City-No LSRs were transmitted from within the county during the August 10 derecho event. However, it is estimated by the NWS that areas of the county experienced severe winds and associated damage based on surrounding county LSRs and other available information.
September 2019Funnel CloudSac City-Trained spotter observed a funnel cloud NW of Sac City.
June 2018Flash FloodSac City-Trained spotter reported standing water at the intersection Audubon and 10th Street.
April 2017Heavy RainSac City-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 1.35 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2016Heavy RainSac City-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.55 inches.
December 2015Heavy RainSac City-Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.01 inches over the last 48 hours/storm total so far.
June 2014Heavy RainSac City-Storm total rainfall of 4.40 inches.
June 2014Heavy RainSac City-Rainfall during the last three hours was 3.25 inches.
June 2014Heavy RainSac City-Rain fell fell between 3 AM and 6 AM.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindSac City-Large tree limbs down and table and chairs blown around on the deck.
June 2012Heavy RainSac City-Street flooding was caused by a 20 minute period of heavy rain.
June 2012Heavy RainSac City-A trained spotter measured 5.5 inches of rain so far today.
May 2008HailSac City-Two periods of hail occurred with the first lasting 30 to 45 seconds, the second was 2 minutes later and lasted 3-5 minutes. Hail covered the ground with half to three quarter inch hail.
April 2014Heavy RainSac City-no account filed
May 2012HailSac City-no account filed
June 2010HailSac City-no account filed
August 2010Funnel CloudSac City-no account filed
May 2008Heavy RainSac City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sac 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

6 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
Sac City Monument Square Historic District0.2 miles2015
Park Hotel0.2 miles2017
Sac County Courthouse0.2 miles1981
Seven Oaks0.4 miles1996
George and Lola Perkins House0.4 miles2016
Sac City Chicago and North Western Depot0.7 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13001138 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sac CountyAll 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.
  • 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.