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Photograph of Western Hotel
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Western Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Western Hotel, also known as the Pin Oak Tavern, is a historic building located southeast of Holy Cross, Iowa, United States. Floyd settled in Dubuque County in the early 1830s.”

Wikipedia article Western Hotel (Holy Cross, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Dubuque 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. SE of Holy Cross on U.S. 52, Holy Cross, 52053
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. building
  • Township. Concord township
  • National Register reference number. 76000769 - 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 Western Hotel between 2009 and 2018, burning about 56 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Western Hotel: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Fitzpatrick MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Fitzpatrick MineLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite
Fitzpatrick MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schmidt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wpa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque County

Storms near this property

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holy Cross, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHoly Cross$100,000On US Highway 52 between Holy Cross and Rickardsville, numerous trees were uprooted and some farm outbuildings were damaged. The roof and doors were torn from an implement dealer. Three trees at a residence across the street were also blown down, with one of the trees landing on the house.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHoly Cross$15,000Approximately 40 percent of the roof from a historic church was removed. Significant water damage occurred inside since 1.5 inches of rain fell within 15 minutes. Several trees were downed with one falling on top of a car.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Holy Cross$1,000A tornado traveled through some fields, damaged some farm equipment, and downed trees.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHoly Cross-The Emergency Manager reported a measured wind gust of 70 MPH.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHoly Cross-The Emergency Manager reported a measured thunderstorm wind gust of 97 MPH.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHoly Cross-The county emergency manager reported a measured wind gust of 68 knots.
July 2017HailHoly Cross-Report of hail up to the size of 1 inch in diameter was received from the county emergency manager.
July 2017HailHoly Cross-A report of hail up to the size of 1.25 inches in diameter was received from the county emergency manager.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHoly Cross-A roof reported blown off school building.
July 2011Heavy RainHoly Cross-At 817 am CDT July 28, the rainfall total in Holy Cross, IA was 7.50 inches. This report was relayed by a media partner.
July 2008HailHoly Cross-Golf ball-sized hail fell 1 mile north of Holy Cross, IA at 802 pm July 10.
April 2019HailHoly Cross-no account filed
June 2015HailHoly Cross-no account filed
May 2000HailHoly Cross-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubuque 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

4 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
Cottage Hill Methodist-Episcopal Cemetery3.3 miles2017
Concord Congregational Cemetery3.5 miles2017
Lincoln School7.1 miles1975
St. Boniface of New Vienna Historic District7.4 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000769 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dubuque CountyAll 84 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.