Montauk

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Montauk, also known as Montauk State Preserve, is a historic house located northeast of Clermont, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Montauk (Clermont, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi. NE of Clermont on U.S. 18, Clermont, 52135
When was it listed? February 1973
Category. building
Township. Clermont township
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
Architect. E. Townsend Mix
National Register reference number. 73000725 - 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Montauk in 2014, burning about 10 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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 October 2014	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Montauk: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hanson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Peterson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quinn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Thoma Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Williams Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Baird Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Clermont Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Durscher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Miller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clermont, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 4 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2016	Flood	Clermont	$200,000	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Clermont. The river crested over six feet above the flood stage at 22.32 feet. The flood waters damaged the waste water treatment facility.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	$35,000	Trees were blown down in Clermont. At least one tree landed on a house and another destroyed a garage. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in a campground on the southwest edge of town.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	$15,000	no account filed
September 2016	Flood	Clermont	$5,000	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks near Clermont. The river crested less than a foot over the flood stage at 16.95 feet.
July 1994	Tornado (F0)	Clermont	$5,000	Strong upper air dynamics combined with a cold front moved into Iowa. The airmass remained very unstable with surface dew point temperatures in the lower to middle 70s. The moisture layer was deep with 850 mb dew point temperatures around 15° C. Thunderstorms occurred during the early morning hours over western Iowa. The outflow boundary from that complex advanced into the central part of the state by sunrise. Thunderstorms developed throughout the day along this outflow boundary. During the afternoon hours they became severe. Several tornadoes were spawned. Two weak tornadoes touched down briefly in north central Iowa. One was in Winnebago County, the other in Worth County. Neither of them caused any significant damage as they occurred in open country. A fairly strong tornado touched down in Chickasaw County. The tornado touched down southwest of New Hampton and tracked northeast. It his a truck repair shop at the intersection of U.S. Highway 63 and County Highway B54. The roof was removed from the repair facility. Most of the tornado track was through open country, which kept damage to a minimum. The same parent storm caused high winds at the intersection of U.S. Highway 63 and Iowa Highway 18. The winds removed the roof from a car wash there and also damaged several cars in the parking lot there. Debris from the tornado broke windows and punctured the tires on two trucks in the lot. Another tornado made a cameo touchdown in a field north of Clermont in Fayette County. In addition to the tornadoes, there were a few other funnel cloud reports. None of these touched down to become tornadoes. Many of the storms over the east half of the state produced gusty winds and small hail. Only a few were strong enough to become severe. One storm caused wind damage in Bremer County. High winds blew the roof off of a barn and downed trees and power lines south of Plainfield. Another storm uprooted several trees in Waverly. Damage of $10,000-$15,000 was reported in Fredericksburg as high winds damaged the roof of a service station.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	$5,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	$4,500	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Clermont	$4,000	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	$2,000	The top portion of a pine tree was snapped off and another tree was split in Clermont.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clermont	$2,000	no account filed
March 2019	Flood	Clermont	-	Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Turkey River out of its banks near Clermont. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 826.41 feet on March 15th.
May 2018	Flood	Clermont	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Clermont. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 826.26 feet.
September 2016	Flood	Clermont	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Clermont. The river crested a foot and a half above the flood stage at 17.66 feet.
June 2014	Flood	Clermont	-	Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks over the northeast part of Fayette County. The high water threatened campgrounds in both Clermont and Elgin.
September 2012	Hail	Clermont	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Clermont.
August 2009	Funnel Cloud	Clermont	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Clermont	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Clermont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Union Sunday School	1.2 miles	1974
Bigler Building	1.2 miles	1995
Clermont Public School	1.3 miles	1995
Abraham Lincoln Statue and Park	1.4 miles	2000
Church of the Saviour Episcopal Church and David Henderson Statue	1.6 miles	2000
Elgin Block, The	3.9 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000725 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fayette County	All 29 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.