Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad-Grafton Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Paul Railroad-Grafton Station, also known as Grafton Depot, is a historic structure located in Grafton, Iowa, United States. The town of Grafton was surveyed and platted by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.”
Wikipedia article Grafton station (Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Worth County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76000815- 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 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad-Grafton Station
between 2006 and 2009, burning about 31 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/undetermined
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad-Grafton Station: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grafton, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 heavy rain, 12 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.
Tornado developed south of Highway 9 and west of Warbler Avenue and moved northeast. The tornado encountered a farmstead on the south side of Highway 9 producing EF1 damage to trees and an outbuilding. The tornado continued northeast and remained in rural farmland the rest of its path.
Spotter estimated winds over 50 MPH. Several 2 to 3 inch diameter branches were blown down throughout Grafton. An 8 inch and 12 inch diameter tree were both reported down just north of town with power reported out.
Water two to three feet deep flowing up to the road on south end of town as well as approaching a residence. Three to six inches of water flowing over road. Report via social media courtesy of KAAL TV.
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
1 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.
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.
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