Ladora Savings Bank

Built in 2008 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Ladora Savings Bank is a historic structure along U.S. Constructed in 1920, it was closed when the bank that built it failed in the Great Depression, leaving it to be used by a succession of businesses.”
Wikipedia article Ladora Savings Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Iowa County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 2008, Neoclassical architecture.

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. 811 Pacific St., Ladora, 52251
When was it listed? August 1990
Category. building
Township. Hartford township
When was it built? 2008
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 90001196 - 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ladora Savings Bank between 2006 and 2020, burning about 291 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	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1

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
20 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2020	Debris and open burning	228 acres	Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge	CAES NW
26 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge	BURN BARREL
12 March 2017	Smoking	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ladora Savings Bank: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ghueren Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this property

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ladora, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	$50,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	$5,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	$3,000	4 inch diameter tree limbs down with damage to the siding of some mobile homes. Power lines also reported down. Numerous reports of estimated 43 knot (50 mph) winds west and east of Ladora.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	$3,000	Signs and branches down.
October 2004	Hail	Ladora	$3,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	-	A trained spotter reported a large, 1 foot diameter, tree limb was blown down. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	-	A trained spotter reported shingles blown off of houses, siding blown off of a church, and small limbs of 2 to 3 inches in diameter were down.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed 1 mile west northwest of Genoa Bluff, IA at 417 pm CDT May 12.
April 2011	Hail	Ladora	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Ladora, IA at 634 pm CDT April 3.
February 2008	Hail	Ladora	-	A trained spotter measured hail the size of nickels. The storm also produced lots of lightning.
June 2008	Hail	Ladora	-	Dime-size hail fell in Ladora, IA at 4:48 pm June 9. This report was relayed by the broadcast media.
June 2008	Hail	Ladora	-	Nickel-sized hail fell in Ladora, IA at 5:55 pm June 12.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Ladora	-	Heavy rains of 1 to 2 inches fell in a short amount of time resulting in some flash flooding in several parts of Iowa County during the morning and early afternoon hours of June 3. Highway 6 between Ladora and South Amana and 240th street just west of Williamsburg were flooded as well as several other rural roads across the area.
July 2008	Hail	Ladora	-	Penny-sized hail fell in Ladora, IA at 540 pm July 2. This report was relayed by the Iowa County Communications Center.
June 2008	Hail	Ladora	-	Law enforcement reported hail the size of quarters near Highway 6 and F Avenue in Ladora.
March 2007	Hail	Ladora	-	Spotter estimated hail the size of quarters.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Ladora	-	Flash flooding near Ladora covered Highway 6 with water.
May 2001	Hail	Ladora	-	Quarter sized hail reported by law enforcement.
May 2001	Funnel Cloud	Ladora	-	Reported by trained storm spotter.
May 2001	Hail	Ladora	-	Penny sized hail reported by trained storm spotter.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	-	Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph. Reported by law enforcement.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Ladora	-	no account filed
August 2004	Heavy Rain	Ladora	-	no account filed
October 2004	Hail	Ladora	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Ladora	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ladora	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Ladora	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Iowa County Courthouse	6.5 miles	1981
	Plagmann Round Barn	7.0 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001196 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iowa County	All 10 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.