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Photograph of Union Church (Davis City, Iowa)
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Union Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Union Church, also known as Brick Church, is a historic church building located in Davis City, Iowa, United States. For the first 20 years of its existence, Davis City did not have a church.”

Wikipedia article Union Church (Davis City, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Decatur 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Clark at Sycamore St., Davis City, 50065
  • When was it listed? December 1976
  • Category. building
  • Township. Burrell township
  • National Register reference number. 76000759 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Union Church: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Davis City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Davis City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Davis City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Spaulding QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this property

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davis City, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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
June 2014Flash FloodDavis City$400,000Water of 2 feet to 3 feet deep in some places was reported in Davis City as the drainage system could not keep up with the rain.
June 2014Flash FloodDavis City$150,000The Decatur County Engineer reported an estimated 25 culverts damaged and 12 bridges damaged from water. Another 40 locations of roadway were overtopped by water resulting in at least 20 road closures.
May 2019FloodDavis City$50,000The Thompson River at Davis City crested at 13.21 feet on 29 May 2019 at 14:30 UTC.
October 2018FloodDavis City$50,000The Thompson River at Davis City crested at 13.07 ft on 9 October 2018 at 13:00 UTC.
July 2008Flash FloodDavis City$50,000Water was eroding the gravel from 275th St.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindDavis City$50,000no account filed
May 2007FloodDavis City$25,000no account filed
June 1999Flash FloodDavis City$25,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDavis City$10,000no account filed
May 1996HailDavis City$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindDavis City$5,000no account filed
April 2010HailDavis City$3,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDavis City$2,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDavis City$2,000no account filed
May 2012HailDavis City$1,000Also 1.10 inches of rain in 20 minutes.
June 2021HailDavis City-Public report with video of pea to ping pong ball sized hail.
August 2018Heavy RainDavis City-Mesonet station recorded heavy rainfall of 2.06 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2014Heavy RainDavis City-Rainfall in the past 3 hours was 3.35 inches.
September 2010Heavy RainDavis City-Spotter measured 3.2 inches of rain.
June 2005HailDavis City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grand River Bridge6.8 miles1998
Liberty Hall7.7 miles1983
Decatur County Courthouse7.7 miles1981

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000759 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Decatur CountyAll 7 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.
  • 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.