Kegler Gonner Store and Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Kegler-Gonner Store and Post Office, also known simply as Gonner's Store, is a historic commercial building located in Springbrook, Iowa, United States. Christian Kegler had the western portion of this building constructed around 1874 for his general store.”
Wikipedia article Kegler Gonner Store and Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 77 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 E. Main, Springbrook, 52075
When was it listed? June 1985
Category. building
Township. Jackson township
National Register reference number. 85001375 - 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Kegler Gonner Store and Post Office between 2006 and 2014, burning about 80 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
Debris and open burning	3

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
9 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 April 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	32997 150TH STREET, IOWA
23 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kegler Gonner Store and Post Office: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Springbrook Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Springbrook-Lundin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springbrook, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2007	Tornado (EF2)	Springbrook	$3,250,000	A tornado touched down about 3.5 miles south of Bellevue, IA. It moved north to county road Z15 and then northeast crossing the Mississippi River just south of Lock and Dam 12 into Jo Daviess County Illinois. Along the path, damage consisted of snapped and uprooted trees, farm out buildings, and roofs. The most significant damage occurred near the junction of county highway Z15 and 407th Avenue. A mobile home was rolled over and destroyed. The residents of the mobile home had taken shelter in the farm house about 100 feet away. The farm house only had damaged gutters.
September 2018	Tornado (EF1)	Springbrook	$250,000	An EF-1 tornado damaged and uprooted trees, snapped a power pole, and caused roof damage. Maximum wind speed was estimated around 100 mph. The tornado was on the ground less than 1 minute and travelled a little more than a quarter mile.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Springbrook	$25,000	Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew a grain bin over about two miles west of Springbrook, IA at 7:40 pm June 8.
May 2014	Hail	Springbrook	$500	Golf ball hail fell in Springbrook, IA around 800 pm CDT May 20. The hail damaged a squad car.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Springbrook	-	Law Enforcement relayed a public report of 60 MPH thunderstorm winds near Springbrook.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Springbrook	-	A trained spotter reported several trees down and siding blown off a house. Winds were estimated at 70 mph.
May 2010	Hail	Springbrook	-	Quarter-sized hail fell near Springbrook, IA at 135 pm May 25. Wind gusts were estimated to be between 40 and 50 mph. Heavy rain was also observed.
July 2008	Hail	Springbrook	-	Nickel-sized hail fell 2 miles south of Springbrook, IA at \|220 pm July 2.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Jackson County Jail	5.9 miles	1978
Dyas Hexagonal Barn	6.0 miles	1986
George Dyas House	6.0 miles	1991
Nathaniel Butterworth House	6.2 miles	1992
William Dyas Barn	6.2 miles	1991
E. G. Potter's Jasper Flour Mill	6.5 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001375 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 77 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.