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Photograph of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Barnabas Episcopal Church is a former church building in the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa in Montrose, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article St. Barnabas Episcopal Church (Montrose, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1986 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Chestnut St., Montrose, 52639
  • When was it listed? April 1986
  • Category. building
  • Township. Montrose township
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 86000721 - 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.

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 Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fort Madison Conversion Mo PlantMolybdenumProducer
Sandusky QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this property

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montrose, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2006LightningMontrose1 hurtno account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMontrose1 hurtno account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMontrose$250,000Roof partially off business
June 2010FloodMontrose$75,000Heavy rains during the third week of June resulted in the Mississippi River at Keokuk going above the moderate flood stage level of 17.5 feet on June 22 around 5 am. It crested around 18.6 feet around 7 pm June 22. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 1 pm June 25.||The Mississippi River at Gregory Landing went above the moderate flood stage level of 18 feet on June 22 around 3 am. It crested around 19.7 feet around 1 am June 23. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 8 am June 28.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMontrose$60,000Numerous trees down
September 2003HailMontrose$50,000no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F1)Montrose$20,000Rated F1
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMontrose$7,000Numerous large limbs and trees were downed. Also, a corn field was flattened on 300th Street just east of Highway 27.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Montrose$7,000Rated very high end F0
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMontrose$5,000Large tree limbs down
April 1994HailMontrose$5,000no account filed
May 2004HailMontrose$4,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Reported by the public on wind observing equipment.
July 2024Flash FloodMontrose-The Emergency Manager reported that creeks were flooding in Montrose.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Trees and power line were reported down, with estimated 70 to 80 mph winds.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMontrose-NWS Storm Survey found damage to dozens of large trees and utility poles consistent|with peak wind gusts of 90 to 100 mph throughout the town.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMontrose-A trained spotter relayed a report from a scanner of a tree falling on a house. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMontrose-The roof was damaged at the Gregory Manufacturing Company north of Montrose. A picture of the damage was sent via social media. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMontrose-A trained spotter reported estimated winds of 50 to 60 MPH.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMontrose-A trained spotter reported a large tree branch was down at the local residence.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMontrose-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph topped off a 6 inch diameter tree near the library in Montrose, IA at 534 am CDT September 5.
May 2010HailMontrose-Ping pong ball-sized hail fell in Montrose, IA at 1040 pm May 12. The hail covered the ground.
June 2006HailMontrose-penny to nickel size hail with heavy rain.
May 1998HailMontrose-no account filed
April 1998Tornado (F0)Montrose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District7.3 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000721 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee CountyAll 48 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.
  • 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.