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Photograph of St. John's Lutheran Church
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. John's Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“John's Lutheran Church is located in rural Franklin County, Iowa, United States, west of the city of Hampton. The church property was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places as St.”

Wikipedia article St. John's Lutheran Church (Hampton, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 1207 Indigo Ave., Hampton, 50441
  • When was it listed? October 2015
  • Category. district
  • Township. Hamilton township
  • National Register reference number. 15000726 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

60 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hampton, the town this property stands in, in 74 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 11 heavy rain, 4 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
June 1997Flash FloodHampton$200,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHampton$100,000Winds of 60 to 65 MPH produced widespread tree damage in the town of Hampton. Numerous trees and limbs were downed through town. Many location were without power due to branches falling on power lines.
June 1998FloodHampton$100,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHampton$60,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHampton$50,000Public reported traffic poles downed and roof damage. Reported via social media.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHampton$50,000Trained spotter reported power lines down along Highway 65 between Hampton and Sheffield. Also reported up to 12 inch diameter limbs down in Hampton.
June 1998FloodHampton$50,000no account filed
June 1998FloodHampton$50,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHampton$40,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHampton$30,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHampton$30,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHampton$25,000Trained spotter reported power lines down in the city.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHampton$20,000High winds from a thunderstorms downed 14 trees, many uprooted.
July 2003HailHampton$20,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHampton$15,000Numerous tree limbs down. Road department had to clear the roads.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHampton$15,000no account filed
May 1996HailHampton$15,000no account filed
June 2014Flash FloodHampton$10,000At least 6 inches of water flowing cross portions of highway 3 in the Hampton area. flooding of farm fields approaching roads and highways.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHampton$10,000Numerous branches down.
June 2010FloodHampton$10,000Highway 65 was closed north of Hampton near 180th St. due to water over the road from Otter Creek.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHampton$10,000Tree damage was reported and corn was flattened on the west edge of Hampton near the fairgrounds.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindHampton$10,000no account filed
August 2004HailHampton$10,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHampton$10,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHampton$10,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHampton$5,000Emergency manager reported three large trees down in town and estimate 60 mph winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHampton$5,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHampton$5,000no account filed
August 2004HailHampton$5,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHampton$5,000no account filed
May 2003HailHampton$5,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHampton$5,000no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindHampton$5,000no account filed
May 2011HailHampton$3,000Quarter size hail was reported southeast of Hampton.
July 2003HailHampton$3,000no account filed
May 1999HailHampton$3,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHampton$2,000Public shared a picture of downed tree limbs, about 2 to 3 inches in diameter, and tents ripped apart. Wind gusts were estimated to be between 50 and 60 mph.
July 2003HailHampton$2,000no account filed
May 2017HailHampton$1,000Public reported half dollar sized hail along with tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter broken off.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHampton$1,000no account filed
July 2003HailHampton$1,000no account filed
May 1993HailHampton$500no account filed
April 2025HailHampton-Golf ball hail occurring throughout Hampton.
April 2025HailHampton-Picture of numerous hailstones close to golf ball sized. Occurred over several minutes.
April 2025HailHampton-Report via mping.
September 2025HailHampton-Delayed report from mping.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHampton-Trees and power lines down. Time estimated by radar.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHampton-Public mping report of trees uprooted or snapped, roof damage.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHampton-Hampton AWOS reported a gust of 63 knots.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHampton-Hampton AWOS reported a gust of 63 knots.
June 2020Heavy RainHampton-Coop observer reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 2.70 inches.
June 2020Heavy RainHampton-Coop observer reported a 24 hour rainfall total of 2.70 inches.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHampton-Hampton Municipal Airport AWOS recorded an 88 mph wind gust.
August 2018Heavy RainHampton-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.17 inches over the last 24 hours.
June 2018Heavy RainHampton-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.07 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainHampton-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.70 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainHampton-Public reported heavy rainfall of 5.5 inches over the past 12 hours and 9.3 inches over the last 48 hours. They also reported basement flooding within their house.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHampton-Public reported 6 inch tree branches down and some dime to quarter sized hail, and was getting bigger at the time.
May 2017HailHampton-Public reported some hail slightly larger than quarters.
May 2017HailHampton-KLMJ/KQCR-FM radio in Hampton reported quarter sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Reeve Electric Association Plant5.9 miles1990
Beeds Lake State Park, Civilian Conservation Corps Area6.2 miles1990
Dr. O. B. Harriman House6.2 miles1987
Franklin County Courthouse6.8 miles1976
Hampton Double Square Historic District6.9 miles2003
Franklin County G. A. R. Soldiers' Memorial Hall6.9 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000726 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 12 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.
  • 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.