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Photograph of Chief Wapello's Memorial Park
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Chief Wapello's Memorial Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Chief Wapello's Memorial Park, also known as Chief Wapello's Gravesite and the Site of Sac and Fox Indian Agency, is a historic site located near Agency, Iowa, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”

Wikipedia article Chief Wapello's Memorial Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Wapello County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.

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 3 objectss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. SE of Agency off U.S. 34, Agency, 52530
  • When was it listed? March 1975
  • Category. site
  • Township. Agency township
  • National Register reference number. 75000700 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Chief Wapello's Memorial Park between 2002 and 2019, burning about 36 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 burning6

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 April 2019Debris and open burning4.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Wapello County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chief Wapello's Memorial Park: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rowell Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wapello County

Storms near this property

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agency, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 hail, 11 heavy rain, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 3 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2001Tornado (F2)Agency2 killed, 3 hurt, $400,000Quick moving tornado, touchdown with strongest part in Agency. Nine buildings with major damage, 43 with minor. Two buildings destroyed. Two dead, three injured.
April 1999Tornado (F2)Agency$100,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodAgency$75,000Rural roads were flooded near Eldon.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAgency$25,000A barn was blown down and several large trees were damaged.
August 2007Flash FloodAgency$25,000One foot of water was reported on Lee Avenue.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAgency$25,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAgency$10,000Public relayed pictures of a tree that fell on and damaged part of a home. Time estimated from radar.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAgency$10,000Trained spotter report of tree branches down on a power line. Report came via social media.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAgency$10,000A large tree was down in town. Report from a WHO news article.
August 2010Flash FloodAgency$10,000Resident had knee deep water on his property that runs off from the farm land near his home. He said it usually is retained by terraces and trenches in the fields but they were not able to keep up.
June 2008HailAgency$10,000Nickel size hail was reported along with high winds. The power was knocked out.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAgency$10,000no account filed
September 2000HailAgency$10,000no account filed
April 2012HailAgency$5,000no account filed
April 2003HailAgency$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAgency$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAgency$5,000no account filed
May 1998HailAgency$5,000no account filed
March 2006HailAgency$3,000no account filed
June 2007HailAgency$2,000no account filed
July 2024Heavy RainAgency-Report of 3.11 inches of rain.
June 2023HailAgency-Trained spotter reported tennis ball sized hail.
August 2022HailAgency-Hail just under quarter sized reported with little wind.
June 2021Heavy RainAgency-Trained spotter reported via twitter that 5 inches of rain fell overnight.
June 2021Heavy RainAgency-Trained spotter reported 2.5 inches of rain in an hour.
June 2021Heavy RainAgency-A mesonet station reported 3.49 inches of rain with rain still falling.
June 2021Heavy RainAgency-Public report of 4.7 inches of rain relayed via broadcast media.
April 2019HailAgency-Trained spotter reported penny sized hail.
August 2018Heavy RainAgency-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.10 inches.
August 2018Heavy RainAgency-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.07 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAgency-Trained spotter reported an estimated gust of around 60 mph.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindAgency-Public reported a large pine tree uprooted.
July 2016Heavy RainAgency-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 1.10 inches since 8 am.
November 2015Heavy RainAgency-CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.35 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2014Heavy RainAgency-Rainfall total for the past 24 hours was 2.50 inches.
August 2014Heavy RainAgency-Rainfall of 3.00 inches in the past 24 hours.
June 2000HailAgency-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wapello 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
North Fellows Historic District6.0 miles2010
Eldon Carnegie Public Library6.1 miles1996
Dahlonega School #16.1 miles2000
Fifth Street Bluff Historic District6.2 miles1998
B'nai Jacob Synagogue6.2 miles2004
McHaffey Opera House6.3 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000700 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wapello CountyAll 32 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.