Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“Coldwater Church of the Brethren is a historic church building located in Greene, Iowa, United States. The Church of the Brethren congregation was established by Philip Moss in Coldwater Township in 1855.”
Wikipedia article Coldwater Church of the Brethren, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79000883- 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 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Coldwater Church of the Brethren
between 2012 and 2020, burning about 81 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
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
15 workings within 5 miles of Coldwater Church of the Brethren: 10 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers.
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
Greene, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 4 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.
Emergency Manager reported many roads closed throughout the northern fourth of Butler county. The Shell Rock river reported beginning to leave its banks and moving toward businesses in downtown Greene. Sandbagging ongoing in Green and Clarksville.
Emergency manager reported multiple homes in Greene now being impacted by floodwaters from the rapidly rising Shell Rock river. Also estimated that the river is near the level it reached in 2008.
Flooding continued along the Shell Rock River with all campgrounds near Clarksville closed including Henry Woods State Park and Shell Rock Park due to flooding. A few businesses along the river were impacted as well.
Emergency management reported multiple road closures due to standing or running water over the roadways. Creeks across much of the county were overwhelmed with flooded fields as well.
The Emergency Manager reported the Shell Rock River was out of its banks in the town of Greene, and was entering a campgroud and near a few business in town. Campers were evacuated from the campground. The park was flooded, and the water did not enter any businesses.
Emergency Manager reported several gravel roads throughout Butler County had water flowing over them, plus a blacktop, C13 outside of Greene, had deep water flowing over it. Time estimated by the Emergency Manager, between 2-3 am.
This tornado was initially found using high resolution satellite imagery. The tornado developed to the southwest of the intersection of county highway C13 and T24. This tornado raced northeast and produce some minor damage before exiting into Floyd county east of county road T24 along Floyd Line Street.
Greene fire department reported a storm total rainfall since beginning Wednesday of 10.40 inches. Total rainfall since last report, 7.5 inches through 10:47pm previous night, was 2.9 inches. Relayed by Butler County Emergency Manager.
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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