Star-Clipper-Canfield Building and Winding Stairway
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
From the record
“The Star-Clipper-Canfield Building and Winding Stairway are located in Traer, Iowa, United States. The staircase is thought to be one of a kind in the country, and it was featured on a U.S. commemorative stamp.”
Wikipedia article Star-Clipper-Canfield Building and Winding Stairway, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tama County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75000699- 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 2011
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Star-Clipper-Canfield Building and Winding Stairway
between 2011 and 2017, burning about 5 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 National Weather Service names
Traer, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 10 heavy rain, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
Trained spotter has measured around 4 inches of rain in the last 24 hours with 7.75 inches measured since Friday. Reported flooding in the wolf creek area.
The department of transportation relayed a report from the Tama county sheriff's office that there was flooding on US 63 south from just north of Traer by the golf course near Wolf Creek. Water was over the southbound lane roughly to the centerline.
This is a delayed report. Public reported larger than quarter sized hail in Traer via multiple reports on social media including from KWWL, KCCI, KCRG.
Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 6.57 inches. Due to database entry limitation, beginning time coded as midnight CST. Actual estimated start time of 1120pm CST on August 31st.
County Sheriff's Office reported that the bridge on M Ave over Wolf Creek was under water due to the heavy rains overnight. Unknown beginning time of water over the bridge.
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
2 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.
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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