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Photograph of Albert City
Photograph by TheCatalyst31, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Chicago, Milwaukee and Pacific Railroad-Albert City Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Chicago, Milwaukee and Pacific Railroad-Albert City Station, also known as the Albert City Depot, was built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1899 to serve the farms around Albert City, Iowa.”

Wikipedia article Albert City station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Buena Vista County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 212 N. 2nd St., Albert City, 50510
  • When was it listed? October 1976
  • Category. building
  • Township. Fairfield township
  • National Register reference number. 76000737 - 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 Chicago, Milwaukee and Pacific Railroad-Albert City Station between 2009 and 2011, burning about 4 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/undetermined3

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
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources4716 220TH AVE., SEC 33 POLAND TWP, IA
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesSEC 12 POLAND TWP, IA
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Buena Vista County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albert City, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1997Thunderstorm WindAlbert City$5,000no account filed
May 2023Flash FloodAlbert City-Multiple rural roads south of Albert City were inundated by water.
May 2023Flash FloodAlbert City-Water encroached into several basements around Albert City.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAlbert City-A few large limbs from 1 to 3 inches in diameter were broken in a tree line.
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Albert City-A tornado briefly spun up and traveled across farmland to the southeast, located between 560th and 570th Streets, and 240th and 100th Avenues. The tornado path was observed on Sentinel satellite imagery. The average path width was 20 yards.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbert City-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines. The amount of damage was not known.
June 2003HailAlbert City-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and windows.
July 2023HailAlbert City-no account filed
July 2023HailAlbert City-no account filed
March 2007HailAlbert City-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbert City-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAlbert City-no account filed
September 2005HailAlbert City-no account filed
May 2004HailAlbert City-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Albert City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buena Vista 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000737 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Buena Vista CountyAll 10 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.
  • 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.