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United Presbyterian Church, Summerset

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Scotch Ridge United Presbyterian Church is a historic structure located in rural Warren County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1883 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”

Wikipedia article United Presbyterian Church, Summerset, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Warren 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. U.S. 65, Scotch Ridge, 50047
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. building
  • Township. Greenfield township
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 76000811 - 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of United Presbyterian Church, Summerset in 2006, burning about 3 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/undetermined1

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
15 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of United Presbyterian Church, Summerset: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Clay. 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
Carlisle Brick and Tile Co. PitClayPast Producer
OccurrenceZincPast ProducerSphalerite

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotch Ridge, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2015Flash FloodScotch Ridge$250,000Emergency Manager reported US 65/69 south of Indianola closed due to water flowing over the road. Additional sections of US 65/69 closed elsewhere in the county also due to water flowing over the road. Delayed report and time estimated via radar.
June 2014HailScotch Ridge$10,000no account filed
June 2014HailScotch Ridge$10,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindScotch Ridge$5,000Emergency manager reported a power line down and tree limbs down. This is a delayed report.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindScotch Ridge$5,000Large trees were damaged along U.S. Highway 65 69.
September 2022HailScotch Ridge-Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail.
July 2016Flash FloodScotch Ridge-Emergency Manager relayed road closure of 138th Ave north of Elk Horn St.
April 2012Funnel CloudScotch Ridge-Funnel cloud was reported near R63 and Dubuque Street between Norwalk and Indianola.
June 2010HailScotch Ridge-Mostly dime size with a few penny size stones.
June 2008HailScotch Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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

5 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
Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church7.0 miles1979
Science Hall7.4 miles1991
Indianola High School7.5 miles2002
Indianola Carnegie Library7.5 miles2017
Warren County Court House7.6 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000811 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren CountyAll 13 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.