Women's Christian Temperance Union Public Fountain
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Woman's Christian Temperance Union Public Fountain is a historic temperance fountain at Clarinda and Sheridan Streets in Shenandoah, Iowa, United States.”
Wikipedia article Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain (Shenandoah, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Page County · listed in 1984 · category: Object.
National Register reference number.84001293- 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
6 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Women's Christian Temperance Union Public Fountain
between 2009 and 2011, burning about 20 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
6
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
17 August 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
21 May 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
19 May 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
57006 241ST ST., TECHNICAL SERVICES. SEC 18 GRANT
21 April 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
15 April 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
24656 SANDHILL TRAIL, SECTION #17, GRANT TOWNSHIP,
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Women's Christian Temperance Union Public Fountain: 2 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Shenandoah, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
A damaging wind event swept through Page County, Iowa, during the morning of August 10th, 2025. The most severe damage occurred near Shenandoah, where straight-line wind gusts were estimated as high as 95 miles per hour. Tragically, 1 mile north-northwest of Shenandoah, Emergency Management reported an incident that resulted in 1 fatality when a shed at a campsite was overturned, along with significant tree damage and minor structural damage in the area. Further reports of estimated 95 miles per hour gusts in the same vicinity detailed numerous large snapped trees. In addition, an estimated 70 miles per hour gust 1 mile west of Shenandoah was responsible for overturning a semi-truck in a retail parking lot. The storm left a path of destruction across the county, particularly around Shenandoah.
Heavy rainfall over the weekend of May 4th through the 6th, caused the the East Nishnabotna River to flood around the Shenandoah area. Flood waters inundated 45 trailers and some vehicles near town and caused the closure of Highways 59, 48 and old Highway 2. Most if not all main east to west county roads across the county were closed due to flood waters. See Montgomery county for river levels of the East Nishnabotna River at Red Oak.|Flooding along the East Nishnabotna River, the Nodaway River and other smaller streams caused almost 1 million dollars worth of damage to county roads and bridges.
The Awos in Shenandoah measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph. The winds blew out some store windows in town and knocked down or split several large trees causing structural and other damage.
Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph caused roof damage to a local Walmart and several other buildings in town, and also downed a few trees and power lines.
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
2 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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