Highland Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Highland Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Highland Historic District (Waterloo, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Black Hawk County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Independence Ave., Steely, Idaho, and Vine Sts., Waterloo, 50703
When was it listed? September 1984
Category. district
City. Waterloo city
National Register reference number. 84001209 - 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

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Highland Historic District between 2001 and 2011, burning about 30 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	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1690 HWY 218 AND 27, IA
27 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 November 2001	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 November 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 October 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Iowa State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Black Hawk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Highland Historic District: 10 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Stead Bros. and Guenther Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Burton Avenue Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Morgan Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Black Hawk County

Storms near this property

60 of 168 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterloo, the town this property stands in, in 168 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 66 hail, 50 thunderstorm wind, 23 heavy rain, 14 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2008	Lightning	Waterloo	1 hurt	Lighting struck and injured one outside of the Waterloo Post Office.
July 2006	Hail	Waterloo	$1,000,000	no account filed
June 2002	Lightning	Waterloo	$1,000,000	no account filed
July 1999	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$1,000,000	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$250,000	no account filed
June 2008	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$150,000	Two to 3 feet of water standing in Waterloo near the Sycamore area. Water was also over portions of Black Hawk Road.
May 1999	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$150,000	no account filed
July 2010	Heavy Rain	Waterloo	$100,000	Rainfall of 3.8 to 4 inches since 0430 CST. Several houses have water in the basement.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$100,000	no account filed
May 2013	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$75,000	A car stalled in flash flood waters near the Grout Museum.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$75,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Waterloo	$75,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$50,000	Several reports across Waterloo of trees on utility lines and transformers. Power is out in various locations around Waterloo. Time estimated by radar and ASOS recorded gust.
March 2024	Lightning	Waterloo	$50,000	Delayed report of house fire in vicinity due to lightning. Time of lightning strike estimated from radar.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$50,000	Large trees down, power lines down, some damage to home on Gloria Drive.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$50,000	Law enforcement reported the road impassible at the intersection of Franklin and Elm Street due to water.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$50,000	Reports of 18 to 24 inches of flowing water through the intersection.
March 2007	Flood	Waterloo	$50,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Waterloo	$50,000	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$50,000	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$50,000	no account filed
May 2000	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$50,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$50,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Waterloo	$50,000	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$50,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$40,000	Damage to homes due to downed tree limbs.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$30,000	Trees and power lines were down across the Waterloo and Cedar Falls area including the University of Northern Iowa. One tree fell on a house.
April 2013	Hail	Waterloo	$25,000	Quarter size hall covering the ground two the three inches deep at the intersection of Conger St and Highway 63.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$25,000	Tree fell on a house.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$25,000	Numerous trees blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$25,000	Large trees were down in the southern end of Waterloo. Power lines taken down as well. Another tree was downed in Evansdale.
April 2013	Hail	Waterloo	$25,000	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Waterloo	$25,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Waterloo	$25,000	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Waterloo	$25,000	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Waterloo	$25,000	no account filed
June 2018	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$20,000	KWWL reported flash flooding along 4th St in downtown Waterloo.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$20,000	Sixth Street and Lafayette in Waterloo under water one half block in either direction.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$20,000	Several large trees and numerous large branches were down along Highway 63 in the southern section of Waterloo.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$20,000	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$20,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Waterloo	$20,000	no account filed
July 2008	Lightning	Waterloo	$15,000	KWWL reported that lightning struck a home in Waterloo around 1500 CST. Fire crews were called to the scene.
April 2010	Hail	Waterloo	$15,000	no account filed
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$10,000	Media reported a large tree down on some power lines. Delayed report.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$10,000	Trees were reported down from high wind.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Waterloo	$10,000	Flooding has popped up manhole covers on Upton Ave near Ansborough Ave.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Flood	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
June 2000	Lightning	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed
August 1998	Flood	Waterloo	$10,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Black Hawk 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
Rath Packing Company Administration Building	0.8 miles	2008
Overland Waterloo Company Building	1.0 miles	2014
Waterloo Public Library-East Side Branch	1.1 miles	1988
Walnut Street Baptist Church	1.1 miles	2000
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church	1.1 miles	2011
Marsh-Place Building	1.2 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001209 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Black Hawk County	All 51 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.