Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 121 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded by RR tracks, College Blvd., North 10th, North 8th, and South 3rd Aves., North. 2nd and South. 4th Sts., Mount Vernon, 52314
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. district
Township. Franklin township
National Register reference number. 80001456 - 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District between 2010 and 2015, burning about 27 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
13 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1750 YEISLEY RD., LINN TWP, IOWA
20 March 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 January 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cornell College-Mount Vernon Historic District: 3 past producers, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ivanhoe Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lisbon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Linn 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
King Memorial Chapel	under 500 feet	1976
Ash Park Historic District	0.2 miles	1993
Albright, Henry D. and Juliana (Wortz), House	0.3 miles	2020
Wilds, Col. John Q. and Rowena (Camp), House	0.4 miles	2020
Smith, James J. and Anna J. (Linean), House #1	0.4 miles	2020
Smith, James J. and Anna J. (Linean), House #2	0.4 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001456 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn County	All 121 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.