Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Wenzil Taylor Building is a historic building located in Spillville, Iowa, United States. Wenzil Taylor had this building constructed in 1871 for use as a general merchandise store.”
Wikipedia article Wenzil Taylor Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Winneshiek County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79000951- 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
11 since 2008
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wenzil Taylor Building
between 2008 and 2020, burning about 353 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
6
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
7 workings within 5 miles of Wenzil Taylor Building: 6 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Spillville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 flood, 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind.
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.
Heavy rain during the middle of August allowed the Turkey River at Spillville to rise into flood stage during the morning on August 18th. The site crested at 11.23 ft in moderate flood stage during the early afternoon on August 18th before falling below flood stage during the early morning hours on August 20th.
Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over six feet above the flood stage at 15.1 feet on the 28th.
Runoff from the heavy rains associated with Tropical Depression Cristobal pushed the Turkey River out of its banks twice in Spillville. The first crest was almost two and half feet above the flood stage at 11.4 feet on the 10th. The second crest was around a quarter of a foot above the flood stage at 9.23 feet, also on the 10th.
Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over three feet above the flood stage at 12.1 feet on March 15th.
Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.13 feet.
Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested a half foot above the flood stage at 9.5 feet on September 4th. The river briefly fell below flood stage before going out of its banks again. The second crest was over four and a half feet above the flood stage at 13.67 feet on September 6th.
Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over five feet above the flood stage at 14.42 feet on the 4th. Several fire departments and law enforcement agencies help residents sandbag against the flooding.
Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 9.66 feet on September 21st.
Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 9.8 feet on October 10th.
Heavy rains in the upper reaches of the Turkey River caused a short period of flooding in Spillville. The river crested just over the flood stage at 9.14 feet.
Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested five feet above the flood stage at 13.99 feet. This was the second time in two days that flooding occurred at this site. It had crested at 9.14 feet the day before.
Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested over eleven feet above the flood stage at 20.25 feet. This established a new crest of record.
Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Spillville. The river crested less than a half foot above the flood stage at 9.21 feet.
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
4 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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