Dr. Martin H. Caulkins House and Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Caulkins House and Office is a historic building located in Wyoming, Iowa, United States. Caulkins was a New York native who started out as a teacher before studying medicine.”
Wikipedia article Dr. Martin H. Caulkins House and Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Jones County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Caulkins, Dr. Martin H., House and Office - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Washington and Main Sts., Wyoming, 52362
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Township. Wyoming township
National Register reference number. 82002625 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Martin H. Caulkins House and Office between 2007 and 2018, burning about 144 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8

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
23 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2018	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 April 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dr. Martin H. Caulkins House and Office: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hutton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wyoming Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jones County

Storms near this property

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wyoming, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Hail	Wyoming	$250,000	no account filed
June 2004	Flash Flood	Wyoming	$50,000	Bear creek flooded out X75 on the south edge of town; numerous basements flooded in Wyoming
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	$50,000	Numerous trees down on houses & vehicles. Small Outbuilding blown over.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	$50,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	$40,000	Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a cattle shed, uprooted a large tree, overturned a feed bunk, and broke windows at a farm southeast of Wyoming. Nearby, a barn was destroyed covering the road with debris, a tree was toppled onto a house, and the roof of a shed was wrapped around a tree. Another barn was also destroyed.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	$25,000	Wind gusts estimated to be 65-70 mph blew down trees and numerous large tree limbs in Wyoming, IA around 638 pm CDT June 18. The local paper also reported that a power pole had been toppled by a tree during the same storm; at least one tree landed on a car; another tree fell onto a garage.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	$25,000	no account filed
June 2004	Flash Flood	Wyoming	$10,000	Water over Highway 64 from Wyoming to Jct of Highway 38; many streets closed in Wyoming
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	$10,000	Tree landed on a garage.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	$5,000	Stop signs blown down with power poles downed.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	$2,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	A public report of a pine tree snapped across the roadway and a flagpole broken.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	Estimated winds also brought down a 3 inch diameter tree branch.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	A public report of trees down in town.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	Powerlines downed throughout the town, with one downed on a mobile home.
March 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Wyoming	-	An EF-1 tornado with peak winds estimated around 100 MPH touched down south of Wyoming and moved through the east side of town, damaging mainly trees with at least two trees snapped off. Twisted metal was lofted into the fire department parking lot.
July 2018	Hail	Wyoming	-	A trained spotter estimated hail stones up to the size of pennies and thunderstorm winds up to 40 MPH.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	The emergency manager reported partial trees were down. The time was estimated based on radar.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	The fire department estimated winds of 60 mph.
June 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Wyoming	-	The Jones County Emergency Manager relayed a public report of a tornado west of Maquoketa. No damage was reported.
May 2011	Hail	Wyoming	-	Half dollar sized hail fell in Wyoming, IA at 435 pm CDT May 22.
August 2011	Heavy Rain	Wyoming	-	This is storm total rainfall.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Wyoming	-	Heavy rains resulted in some flash flooding of Big Bear Creek and Little Bear Creek in Wyoming, IA during the evening of June 8 and early morning of June 9. Some sand bagging efforts were required to protect some properties in Wyoming, IA.
July 2008	Hail	Wyoming	-	Penny to nickel-sized hail fell about 5 miles east of Wyoming, IA at 6:15 pm July 29.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	Extensive tree damage occurred along the Highway 64 corridor from Wyoming to Monmouth. In Wyoming, a large willow tree was uprooted and a cedar tree snapped about 10 ft above the ground along with other widespread branch and tree damage.\|
June 2006	Hail	Wyoming	-	mainly pea with a few dime size stones
June 2002	Flash Flood	Wyoming	-	Bear Creek near Highway 64 out of it's banks with water over the road.
July 2002	Flood	Wyoming	-	Little Bear Creek overflowed its banks and flooded portions of town. Rainfall amounts of 5 to 6 inches were reported in Martelle and from Olin to Wyoming .
August 2002	Flood	Wyoming	-	Torrential rain forced Little Bear Creek out of it's banks. The Creek, for a while, threatened a local supermarket, but never entered the store. A report of 5 inches of rain in 45 minutes was received between Wyoming and Onslow. Firefighters and homeowners sandbagged a few homes where basements were flooded.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	no account filed
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Wyoming	-	no account filed
August 2011	Heavy Rain	Wyoming	-	no account filed
September 2002	Flood	Wyoming	-	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Wyoming	-	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Wyoming	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Wyoming	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Wyoming	-	no account filed
April 2002	Funnel Cloud	Wyoming	-	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Wyoming	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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

3 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
Hale Bridge	4.8 miles	1998
Hale Bridge	4.9 miles	1998
Fremont Mill Bridge	7.5 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002625 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jones County	All 27 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.