Middlefork Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Redding is a city in southwest Ringgold County, Iowa, United States. It has a total area of 1.01 square miles (2.62 km2), of which 1.00 square mile (2.59 km2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water, and the population was 63 at the time of the 2020 census.”
Wikipedia article Redding, Iowa, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Ringgold County · listed in 1990 · 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. S of US 169 on E side of Middle Fork, Grand R., Redding, 50854
When was it listed? November 1990
Category. building
Township. Middle Fork township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90001801 - 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Middlefork Methodist Episcopal Church between 2002 and 2011, burning about 133 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
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 2002	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
20 October 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 January 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Ringgold 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 Middlefork Methodist Episcopal Church: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Allendale Lamb Quarry	Granite	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Adams-Watterson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Allendale-King Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Ringgold County

Storms near this property

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redding, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Redding	$200,000	This tornado crossed into Ringgold County, Iowa from Worth County in Missouri shortly after developing. The tornado widened to around 300 yards as it travelled northeast remaining to the southeast of both Redding and Delphos. The tornado interacted with several different farmsteads producing mainly EF1 damage to houses and outbuildings. There was ample tree damage along the path as well. The tornado eventually lifted to the east of Delphos.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Redding	$50,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Redding	$30,000	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Redding	$20,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Redding	$15,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Redding	$15,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Redding	$10,000	Baseball size hail was measured along 325th street.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Redding	$10,000	Water covering Highway P27 with ditches full of water.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Redding	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Redding	$10,000	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Redding	$5,000	Also the top of a green house was blown off.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Redding	$5,000	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Redding	$3,000	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Redding	$2,000	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Redding	$1,000	no account filed
June 2018	Funnel Cloud	Redding	-	Trained spotter reported a persistent funnel lasting over 5 minutes.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	Emergency manager received report of heavy rainfall of 7 inches storm total. Exact end time of report unknown.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	Rainfall this afternoon and evening was 3.16 inches.
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Redding	-	A spotter had a 5 inch rain gage that overflowed. Estimate of 6 inches of rain based on a nearby neighbor receiving 6 inches in their rain gage.
March 2005	Hail	Redding	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Redding	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ringgold 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lee Shay Farmhouse	7.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001801 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ringgold County	All 6 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.