Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“Kerndt & Brothers Office Block, also known as the Kerndt Brothers Building, is a historic building located in Lansing, Iowa, United States. The four Kerndt brothers were all German immigrants who settled in the Lansing area by 1854.”
Wikipedia article G. Kerndt & Brothers Office Block, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Allamakee County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82000402- 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
18 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Kerndt, G., & Brothers Office Block
between 1998 and 2020, burning about 63 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
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Kerndt, G., & Brothers Office Block: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Stone. 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
Lansing, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 5 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.
Mudslides occurred over the eastern section of the county from Lansing to north of Harpers Ferry covering portions of County Road X52. Other flash flooding occurred over much of the county. A campground in the Yellow River State Forest had to be evacuated with 80 campers moved to community building in Harpers Ferry. No injuries occurred, but one car was swept away by flood waters on Little Paint Creek. In Waukon, a number of businesses had water up to two feet deep in them with basements completely filled with water. The flooding also caused the utility company to shut off natural gas service to about 60 customers to prevent the possibility of gas leaks to appliances that could have been submerged and pilot lights extinguished. Homes in the Lansing area were damaged by the mudslides with a least one home knocked off its foundation and evacuations of other homes were required along Wall Street.
Runoff from heavy rain caused flooding to occur in Lansing along Clear Creek. Two people had to be rescued when the cabin they were sleeping in was moved off its foundation. The cabin became lodged against some trees allowing rescuers to reach them with a boat. The cabin was destroyed. 5.2 inches of rain was reported around 130 a.m. The runoff also caused a mudslide to occur north of Lansing.
Significant rainfall throughout June pushed the Mississippi River at Lansing into flood stage in June and continued into July. The river stage crested during the early morning on July 5th in minor flood stage at 18.06 ft.
The public reported a mud slide caused a block wall to come down on X52 and the rail track next to it. Mud debris was reported to be on the train track.
Significant rainfall throughout June pushed the Mississippi River at Lansing into flood stage on June 30th. The river stage continued to rise through the end of the month while remaining in minor flood stage.
Significant upstream runoff from the combination of rainfall and melting snow pushed the Mississippi River at Lansing into flood stage on April 21st. The crest of 19.61 ft on April 28th was 2.61 ft over flood stage. Multiple streets in town were closed, including the Black Hawk Bridge connecting Lansing, Iowa to Wisconsin Highway 35 from April 25th to May 4th.
Significant upstream runoff from the combination of heavy rainfall and rapidly melting snow resulted in the fourth highest crest on record in Lansing towards the end of April. Subsequent dry conditions allowed the Mississippi River to slowly recede and drop below minor flood stage in Lansing on May 4th.
High flows along the Mississippi River caused flooding to occur in Lansing during the early part of April. The river crested just under a foot above the flood stage at 17.89 feet on April 4th.
A second round of runoff from rain and snowmelt caused renewed flooding to occur along the Mississippi River in Lansing. The river crested just under a foot above the flood stage at 17.83 feet on April 26th.
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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