Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Burg Wagon Works Building is a historic building located in Farmington, Iowa, United States. A native of Bavaria, Lewis Burg settled in Burlington, Iowa 1853 where he joined his brother John's wagon works.”
Wikipedia article Burg Wagon Works Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78001266- 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
15 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Burg Wagon Works Building
between 2006 and 2014, burning about 179 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
10
Debris and open burning
5
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Burg Wagon Works Building: 2 producers, 1 past producer.
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
Farmington, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 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.
Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down several trees and power lines in Farmington, IA around 700 pm July 27. One tree fell on a house at 519 N. 2nd Street. Another tree fell on a car on Washington Street. Additional tree damage was reported near Pearl Street and 4th Street.
Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding of several streets in Farmington, IA as well as Highway 2 just east of Farmington during the morning of June 21. According to the local paper, more than 20 property owners reported damage from the storm. In particular, a two block stretch of Highway 2 or North 4th Street in Farmington was flooded from runoff from Shimek Forest with debris washed across the road near Pearl Street. A section of State Street between 3rd and 4th streets was eroded. Several buildings were flooded, including the historic old buggy factory located at Second and State Streets, an accounting business, and an auto body repair shop. Rapid runoff scraped the surface of many city streets and numerous basements were flooded. The local newspaper also reported that the mayor of Farmington measured about 4.5 inches of rain between 3 am and 430 am CDT (90 minutes).
Broadcast media relayed a report of numerous large oak trees down in town and the roof of a building peeled back. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph blew down numerous trees and branches across streets about 5 miles northwest of Croton, IA, or in the Farmington, IA area, around 715 pm July 27. A power outage was also observed.
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.
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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