Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Eagle Grove Public Library, now the Eagle Grove Historical Museum, is a historical building in Eagle Grove, Iowa, United States. A subscription library was begun in Eagle Grove around 1885, and housed in the post office.”
Wikipedia article Eagle Grove Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77000569- 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 2008
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Grove Public Library
between 2008 and 2010, burning about 46 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Eagle Grove Public Library: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Eagle Grove, the town this property stands in, in 60 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 25 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 11 heavy rain, 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.
Trained spotter reported several large trees down, either split in half or completely toppled over, throughout the town of Eagle Grove. One large tree fell on a house along West Broadway, along with several trees covering the street near the intersection of West Broadway and Fort.
Law Enforcement reported basement flooding in two residences. The occupants were rescued from a stalled car in 3 feet of water at Lucas and northeast 2nd Street. One to two feet of water was reported at the 700 block of north Iowa Ave in Eagle Grove. Street flooding was reported and street barricades were placed.
Report of water over the road on Highway 17 near Eagle Grove. Local city roads in Eagle Grove as well as Clarion are reportedly flooded. Time of occurrence estimated.
Personal weather station report of 5.21 inches, which is the 24 hour rainfall ending at midnight CDT. Recorded 3 inches of this rain in less than an hour.
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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