German Bank Building of Walnut, Iowa

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“German Bank Building of Walnut, Iowa, also known as the Walnut State Bank Building, is a historic building located in Walnut, Iowa, United States. A two-story, brick building was completed on this corner in 1884.”
Wikipedia article German Bank Building of Walnut, Iowa, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Pottawattamie County · listed in 1991 · 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. Jct. of Highland and Central Sts., Walnut, 51577
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. building
Township. Layton township
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 91000536 - 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

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of German Bank Building of Walnut, Iowa between 2014 and 2017, burning about 38 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

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
22 March 2017	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 March 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2015	Debris and open burning	7.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Pottawattamie County

Storms near this property

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Personal weather station measured gust of 60 mph, likely due to the evaporating of anvil precipitation helping to mix down a strong low-level jet.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	The office received a report from the public of an empty grain bin that had been blown off its foundation.
May 2023	Hail	Walnut	-	Public reported 1-inch hail.
June 2023	Hail	Walnut	-	Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Walnut	-	Broadcast media relayed a report from the public of nearly 7-inches of rain just south of Walnut and that it was still raining heavily at the time.
April 2022	Hail	Walnut	-	Trained Spotter reported 1 inch hail.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Iowa State University research station measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Iowa mesonet site measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
April 2018	Hail	Walnut	-	Quarter size hail reported 1 mile west of Walnut.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Large tree limbs blown down in Walnut and one semi-truck blown off of I-80 north of Walnut.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Thunderstorms wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph uprooted several trees and destroyed a barn east of Walnut. Corn was flattened in the area as well.
June 2008	Hail	Walnut	-	Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell for about 5 minutes in Walnut.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed some limbs near Walnut.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph blew a truck over on Interstate 80 just north of Walnut. This was from the same storm that produced the tornado that tracked across this area around the same time, and it could have been from rear flank downdraft winds wrapping around the tornado.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph destroyed a barn 5 miles south of Walnut. This was from the same storm that produced the tornado that lifted just to the northwest of this damage report.
June 2000	Funnel Cloud	Walnut	-	Reported by ham radio operator near Walnut.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at around 60 mph by a ham radio operator.
July 2000	Tornado (F0)	Walnut	-	A brief touchdown of a very narrow and short-lived tornado. The storm spotter that reported it said it appeared and then dissipated in a matter of 15 or 20 seconds, "it was very snake-like in appearance" according to the spotter.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Walnut	-	Tree limbs up to a foot in diameter were downed plus shingles blown off a roof.
June 2014	Hail	Walnut	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Walnut	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Walnut	-	no account filed
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Walnut	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Walnut	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Walnut	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Walnut	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Walnut	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawattamie 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Charles Henry and Charlotte Norton House	5.9 miles	2004
Pottawattamie County Sub Courthouse	6.0 miles	1981
Graceland Cemetery Chapel	6.1 miles	1986
Francis A. and Rose M. Turner House	6.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000536 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pottawattamie County	All 43 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.
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.