Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“Lidtke Mill, also known as the Lime Springs Mill Complex, is a historic building located on the Upper Iowa River located in the "Old Town" area of Lime Springs, Iowa, United States. It is part of the 10 acres (4.0 ha) Lidtke Park.”
Wikipedia article Lidtke Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Howard County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77000518- 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
6 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lime Springs Mill Complex
between 2006 and 2014, 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/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
2
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
10 workings within 5 miles of Lime Springs Mill Complex: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns.
2 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lime Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
A cold front moved southeast out of the Dakotas into Iowa during the late afternoon and evening hours. Parameters for severe weather were weak. The instability was there, but moisture, inflow, and shear were marginal. A mesoscale convective system developed over Minnesota during the afternoon hours. As the evening progressed, the storms developed toward the southwest. Eventually the complex overspread about the northeast two thirds of Iowa. Some severe weather was reported with the storms, but it was limited. Since the storms occurred across the midnight hour, a few reports were included in the June Storm Data. Dime-size and slightly larger hail fell in west central Iowa after the midnight hour. Minor damage occurred in Arthur as one storm produced winds of nearly 60 MPH. High winds in the Ida Grove area caused damage to two homes there as trees were toppled onto the houses. There were other spotty reports of winds near 60 MPH from around the state, but they were quite isolated. The storms continued east and south across the state during the night, but the system had transformed from a severe weather producer to a general rain event. Urban flooding occurred in parts of Ida County. Local street flooding in Ida Grove was as high as the car bumpers. As the thunderstorms moved across Des Moines, lightning struck one of the buildings downtown. The Equitable Insurance Building was struck by lightning on the 20th floor. A decorative block was shattered and fell to the ground. Lightning struck a tree in Manson. A large branch was broken off and fell through the second floor window of a house there. Minor roof damage was reported in addition to the broken window.
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.
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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