William Findley House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The William Findley House, also known as the Davis County Historical Society Museum, is a historic residence located in Bloomfield, Iowa, United States. Findley was the first owner of this house.”
Wikipedia article William Findley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Davis County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Findley, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 302 E. Franklin St., Bloomfield, 52537
When was it listed? June 1978
Category. building
City. Bloomfield city
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 78001213 - 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

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of William Findley House between 2006 and 2020, burning about 527 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
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 September 2017	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2017	Smoking	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 April 2020	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 April 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 March 2020	Debris and open burning	51 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 March 2020	Debris and open burning	67 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Storms near this property

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 25 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 3 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$1,000,000	KMEM Radio reported that the Davis County Courthouse and several businesses had shattered windows and a local high school had a partial roof collapse. Damage was caused by combination of wind and hail.
April 1999	Tornado (F3)	Bloomfield	$550,000	no account filed
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$150,000	no account filed
June 2000	Flash Flood	Bloomfield	$150,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$100,000	Public report of trees and power lines down and traffic light bent within the city of Bloomfield. Also observed pea to quarter sized hail.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Bloomfield	$75,000	One to three feet of water covered the streets.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$75,000	no account filed
May 1998	Flood	Bloomfield	$50,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$30,000	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$25,000	A few large trees, between 12 and 18 inches in diameter, were blown down along with several large tree limbs of 6 to 10 inch diameter, throughout the town of Bloomfield.
June 2009	Hail	Bloomfield	$25,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$25,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$25,000	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Bloomfield	$25,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$15,000	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
July 2007	Lightning	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$10,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Bloomfield	$7,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$5,000	Trained spotter reported telephone pole down/on ground.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$5,000	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$5,000	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Bloomfield	$5,000	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Bloomfield	$5,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$5,000	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Bloomfield	$5,000	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$5,000	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$3,000	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$3,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$3,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Bloomfield	$3,000	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$2,000	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$2,000	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Bloomfield	$2,000	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$2,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$2,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$2,000	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Bloomfield	$2,000	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Bloomfield	$2,000	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$1,000	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	$1,000	no account filed
April 2024	Hail	Bloomfield	-	Delayed report of hail at the airport. Time estimated by radar.
June 2019	Hail	Bloomfield	-	Public reported quarter sized hail and heavy rainfall.
September 2019	Flash Flood	Bloomfield	-	Law enforcement reported water over Highway 63 north of Bloomfield. Power was also reported out across Bloomfield. Time estimated.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 1.91 inches, with most since 4:30am.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bloomfield	-	Trained spotter reported wind gust.
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.23 inches over the last 24 hours.
November 2015	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.01 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2013	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	Rainfall of 2.04 inches in past two days, 1.90 in the past 24 hours.
October 2013	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	Twenty four hour rainfall total of 2.06 inches.
October 2012	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	Coop reported 3.40 inches of rain. Was 48 hour total, but very little fell before Saturday morning.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	Standing water was reported in fields across Davis County. Two feet of ponded waster was reported across old Highway 2 in Bloomfield.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Bloomfield	-	Rainfall from the overnight storms was 6.9 inches.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Bloomfield	-	Brief tornado touchdown in open fields.

Every storm recorded in Davis 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Asa Wilson House	under 500 feet	1982
Bloomfield Square	0.1 miles	1976
Bloomfield Public Library	0.3 miles	2015
Davis County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1974
James B. Weaver House	0.3 miles	1975
Henry Wishard House	0.4 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Davis County	All 12 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.
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.