A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park System in West Branch, Iowa, United States. The buildings and grounds are managed by the National Park Service to commemorate the life of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States.”
Wikipedia article Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Cedar County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1965 · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000110- 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
51 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
between 2006 and 2020, burning about 635 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
Debris and open burning
26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
21
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
1 working within 5 miles of Herbert Hoover National Historic Site: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
West Branch, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash 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.
Wind gusts estimated to be 65-70 mph snapped trees, downed utility lines, and disrupted power to more than 1,000 customers in West Branch, IA from about 1230 pm until 1245 pm CDT June 18. One tree fell onto 2 cars and another tree landed on a church. Branches were down throughout town.
Warm, moist, and unstable air streamed into Iowa ahead of an advancing cold front. In fact, the warm front passed north of the state during the morning, placing Iowa near the passage of the triple point in the system. Thunderstorms erupted well ahead of the cold front, in the warm sector, during the afternoon. A few of the storms became strong. Severe weather occurred in Tama County. Sixty mph winds swept through an area south of Lincoln. Golf ball-size hail pelted Tama County about six miles south of Guthrie Center causing considerable crop damage. Hail three-quarters of an inch in diameter damaged crops in the Traer area. Further east a few storms became severe over Benton and Cedar Counties. Trees were downed in several locations. Damage was done by high winds to a barn on one farmstead new West Branch. A shed roof was also damaged. High winds destroyed two hog sheds on a farmstead northwest of Tipton as well.
Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph displaced a shed in West Branch, IA at 814 pm June 18. The shed landed across the street from the spotter's residence.
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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