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Anthony M. McColl House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“McColl House is a historic dwelling located in Woodward, Iowa, United States. McColl settled in Dallas County, Iowa with his family in 1877.”

Wikipedia article Anthony M. McColl House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1987 · 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.
  • Listed as. McColl, Anthony M., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 502 S. Main St., Woodward, 50276
  • When was it listed? February 1987
  • Category. building
  • Township. Des Moines township
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style, Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 87000026 - 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Anthony M. McColl House in 2010, burning about 3 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/undetermined2

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
2 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources26122 141ST ST., IOWA
29 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources330TH ST., 1300 BLOCK, WOODWARD, IOWA

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Anthony M. McColl House: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
Croft PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gast PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hodges PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hollingsworth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
S N WilsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodward, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2007Flash FloodWoodward$100,000no account filed
May 2014HailWoodward$50,000Large amounts of hail reported.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindWoodward$50,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodward$25,000A trained spotter reported whole trees down in Woodward with wind gusts to around 75 MPH. Also, dime to nickel size hail fell at approximately 0200 CDT.
May 2018HailWoodward$10,000Trained spotter reported up to golf ball sized hail mixed in with smaller hail.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWoodward$10,000Trained spotter estimates the peak wind gust of 65 MPH.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodward$10,000Semi-truck overturned on Highway 141.
April 1999HailWoodward$10,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWoodward$10,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodward$5,000Power lines down due to high winds.
November 2005HailWoodward$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWoodward$5,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWoodward$5,000no account filed
June 2001HailWoodward$5,000no account filed
June 2001HailWoodward$5,000no account filed
June 2001HailWoodward$5,000no account filed
May 2000HailWoodward$5,000no account filed
May 2000HailWoodward$5,000no account filed
June 1994HailWoodward$5,000no account filed
April 1999HailWoodward$4,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodward$3,000The emergency manager estimated winds of 60 MPH.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodward$3,000Measured wind from a KCCI schoolnet site.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodward$2,000Six inch tree branch and 14 inch tree branch blown down.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodward$2,000no account filed
May 2014HailWoodward$1,000no account filed
July 2008HailWoodward$1,000no account filed
March 2025HailWoodward-Report via mping.
July 2021HailWoodward-Report made via social media.
May 2018HailWoodward-Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
June 2018HailWoodward-Trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail.
September 2015Heavy RainWoodward-Mesonet recorded heavy rainfall of 3.02 inches. End time based on radar.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindWoodward-Very short but well defined miso-vortex that produced crop damage. Damage was found and documented using high resolution satellite imagery.
June 2008Heavy RainWoodward-Rainfall of 2.20 inches.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Woodward-Brief touchdown
July 2021HailWoodward-no account filed
August 1997Tornado (F0)Woodward-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dayton Stagecoach Inn and Tavern Historic District3.4 miles2021
Beaver Creek Bridge6.5 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000026 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas CountyAll 19 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.