Built in 1912 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
From the record
“The George and Lola Perkins House is a historic building located in Sac City, Iowa, United States. Perkins was a Wisconsin native who served as the president of First National Bank, and two terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, two terms the Iowa Senate, and Mayor of Sac City as a Republican.”
Wikipedia article George and Lola Perkins House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Sac County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1912, Colonial Revival architecture, by George Franklin Barber.
National Register reference number. 15000997 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2011
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of George and Lola Perkins House
between 2011 and 2018, burning about 2 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
1
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
10 workings within 5 miles of George and Lola Perkins House: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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