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Photograph of Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Passenger Station
Photograph by Ann Sullivan-Larson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Passenger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Passenger Station, also known as Rock Island Railroad Depot and the Rock Island Depot Railroad Museum, is a historic building located in Clarion, Iowa, United States. The station was built in 1898 by contractor A.”

Wikipedia article Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Passenger Station (Clarion, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1988 · 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. 302 S. Main, Clarion, 50525
  • When was it listed? June 1988
  • Category. building
  • Township. Lincoln township
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88000926 - 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Passenger Station in 2006, burning under an acre 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/undetermined1

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
9 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Wright County

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 Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Passenger Station: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AldrichSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
DorrSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this property

50 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarion, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 10 heavy rain, 4 flash flood. 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 FloodClarion$100,000no account filed
June 1998FloodClarion$75,000no account filed
June 2010Flash FloodClarion$50,000Highway 69 was under water 4 miles south of Belmond and Highway 3 was under water 1 mile west of Clarion.
July 2013HailClarion$50,000no account filed
June 1998FloodClarion$50,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindClarion$25,000Public reported power lines and tree limbs down throughout town. Report via WOI and time radar estimated.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindClarion$25,000A four foot tree was down on a house and car in the 1000 block of S. Main St.
August 1998HailClarion$25,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodClarion$15,000County Road R38 and a few other county roads were closed due to flooding.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindClarion$15,000Five evergreen trees 18 to 24 inches in diameter were uprooted. Also 2 trees were uprooted on the northwest edge of Dows.
July 2013HailClarion$10,000A trained spotter reports mostly dime to quarter size hail, with the largest measured at 1.5 inches.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindClarion$10,000Trees and power lines reported down in Clarion.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindClarion$10,000Trees and power lines reported down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindClarion$10,000no account filed
May 1996HailClarion$10,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindClarion$5,000Damage to a farm out building.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindClarion$5,000A healthy tree 24 inches in diameter was snapped near the base by strong winds.
May 2011HailClarion$5,000Quarter size hail reported in the town of Clarion.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindClarion$5,000Large trees were downed, blocking two lanes of traffic.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindClarion$5,000no account filed
September 2001HailClarion$5,000no account filed
July 2013HailClarion$3,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindClarion$2,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindClarion$2,000no account filed
August 1998HailClarion$2,000no account filed
May 2004HailClarion$1,000no account filed
September 2025HailClarion-Spotter reports quarter sized hail fell just north of the Clarion city limits. Time estimated.
July 2024Flash FloodClarion-Estimated three to four inches of water and rising over Nelson Avenue north of Highway 3 and east of Clarion.
July 2024Heavy RainClarion-Personal weather station report of 3.1 inches of rain.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindClarion-Peak gust at Clarion.
August 2021Heavy RainClarion-A 24 hour rain total of 3.27 inches.
August 2018Heavy RainClarion-Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.3 inches.
September 2018Heavy RainClarion-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.40 inches over the last 24 hours.
May 2017HailClarion-Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail at the Iowa Specialty Hospital. Power reported out at the time as well.
May 2016Heavy RainClarion-Public reported heavy rainfall of 2.50 inches for a storm total. Reported via social media.
May 2016Heavy RainClarion-Public reported heavy rainfall of 2.50 inches, via social media.
September 2016Heavy RainClarion-Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.82 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2016Heavy RainClarion-Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 3.00 inches.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindClarion-Reported at the Clarion AWOS site.
June 2010Heavy RainClarion-The Wright County Sheriffs office reported highway 3 east and west of Clarion beginning to flood, along with county road K north of town.
June 2008Heavy RainClarion-Rainfall of 1.5 inches.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Clarion-Brief touchdown in open area northwest of Clarion.
August 2018HailClarion-no account filed
August 2014HailClarion-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClarion-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindClarion-no account filed
August 2002HailClarion-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Clarion-no account filed
September 1998HailClarion-no account filed
June 1997HailClarion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
Wright County Courthouse0.2 miles1981
Cornelia Lake Bridge4.7 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000926 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wright CountyAll 9 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.