Todd House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Todd House is a historic house museum that was the home to abolitionist and Congregationalist minister, John Todd. The house is located on Park Street in Tabor, Iowa.”
Wikipedia article Todd House (Tabor, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1975 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Park St., Tabor, 51653
When was it listed? August 1975
Category. building
City. Tabor city
Architect. John Todd
National Register reference number. 75000689 - 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

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Todd House between 2009 and 2019, burning about 12 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	2
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
28 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 April 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1141 PLUM CREEK RD, TABOR, IA

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Todd House: 2 past producers. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tabor Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Tabor Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabor, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Hail	Tabor	$50,000	Warm, moist, and unstable air poured into Iowa during the day. By the early evening hours thunderstorms erupted over eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa where convection broke through the capping layer. The storms produced hail over the far southwest corner of the state. The hail ranged from dime-size to golf ball-size. Considerable damage was reported to the crops in the area.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tabor	$5,000	Roof shingles ripped off of a home.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Tabor	-	Local law enforcement reported flooding along Green Hollow Road near the city of Tabor.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Tabor	-	Thunderstorm winds caused damage to a business, partially lifting off the roof and tossing it downstream. There was also damage to a crane and minor tree damage in the area.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Tabor	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph blew over a tree near the school in Tabor. The winds also caused some crop damage and spotty power outages in the area.
October 2002	Hail	Tabor	-	The hail was accompanied by 50 mph winds and caused some crop damage.
April 2014	Hail	Tabor	-	no account filed
September 2008	Hail	Tabor	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Tabor	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Tabor	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Tabor	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Tabor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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

3 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
Tabor Antislavery Historic District	0.1 miles	2007
Tabor Congregational Church	0.3 miles	2011
Hunter School	1.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000689 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont County	All 9 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.