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Photograph of St. Michael's Catholic Church
Photograph by Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Michael's Church, Cemetery, Rectory and Ancient Order of Hibernians Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Michael's Catholic Church is a former parish of the Diocese of Davenport. The church is located in the unincorporated village of Holbrook, east of Parnell, Iowa, United States.”

Wikipedia article St. Michael's Catholic Church (Holbrook, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Iowa County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Parnell on F 52, Parnell, 52325
  • When was it listed? January 1983
  • Category. building
  • Township. Greene township
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83000371 - 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

35 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of St. Michael's Church, Cemetery, Rectory and Ancient Order of Hibernians Hall between 2006 and 2020, burning about 238 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWILLIAMSBURG FIRE
30 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2926 P AVE, PARNELL, IOWA
3 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWILLIAMSBURG FIRE
9 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWILLIAMSBURG FIRE
9 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2926 P AVE. PARNELL, IA 52325, IA
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this property

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parnell, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Flash FloodParnell-Public report of creek flooding, through MPING. Street flooded in town, with lots of standing water. Relayed through broadcast media.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindParnell-Trees were blown down in the town of Parnell. The largest were around 2 feet in diameter and some were snapped off 3 feet above the ground.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindParnell-Three inch diameter tree branches down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindParnell-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down with one tree split. The time was estimated by radar.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindParnell-A trained spotter reported numerous trees down all over town. No power at their residence.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindParnell-Power poles were snapped and blown down for three quarters of a mile. This is the middle of a path that is about 1 mile wide. There is also widespread tree damage in this area with some trees snapped and crops blown down in this area.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindParnell-A trained spotter reported that small branches were down with a gutter blown off of the house.
June 2014Flash FloodParnell-Many roads closed due to flash flooding and fields flooded.
September 2012HailParnell-Quarter sized hail fell in Parnell, IA at 403 am CDT September 7.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Parnell-A trained storm spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown along county road F52 between Parnell and Holbrook. Only minor damage to vegetation was observed. There were no injuries.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindParnell-Trees downed.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindParnell-no account filed
August 2018HailParnell-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindParnell-no account filed
May 2012HailParnell-no account filed
September 1999HailParnell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
David and M. Maria Hughes House6.8 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000371 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iowa CountyAll 10 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.
  • 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.