Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church

Built in 1868 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic structure located in Palmyra Township, Warren County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1868 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1868, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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.
Address. SW of Hartford, Palmyra, 50047
When was it listed? October 1979
Category. building
Township. Palmyra township
When was it built? 1868
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79000945 - 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church in 2014, burning about 9 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	2

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
7 April 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church: 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Carlisle Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fritz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kibbey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmyra, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 2014	Hail	Palmyra	$10,000	no account filed
July 2024	Heavy Rain	Palmyra	-	Report of 3.32 inches of rain.
June 2021	Funnel Cloud	Palmyra	-	Public report of funnel cloud.
June 2014	Hail	Palmyra	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Palmyra	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Coal Creek Bridge	4.6 miles	1998
	United Presbyterian Church, Summerset	7.0 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000945 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren County	All 13 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.
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.