Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“The Kucheman Building is a historic commercial building located in Bellevue, Iowa, United States. It is one of over 217 limestone structures in Jackson County from the mid-19th century, of which 20 are commercial buildings.”
Wikipedia article Kucheman Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 77 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Also known as. Limestone Architecture of Jackson County MPS
Township. Bellevue township
National Register reference number.91001072- 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
6 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kucheman Building
between 2006 and 2018, burning about 254 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
4
Debris and open burning
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
20 workings within 5 miles of Kucheman Building: 14 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bellevue, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 20 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flood, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
A tornado touched down just south of Bellevue, and moved northeast over the Mississippi River before dissipating. This tornado impacted an RV park and some cabins located nearby. Some structural damage was noted, with some RVs that were flipped and damaged. Several trees within the area were also impacted, with some uprooted. Three injuries were noted with this tornado in the vicinity of the RV park. This tornado continued into Jo Daviess County, Illinois, but likely dissipated over the river as no damage was observed in a wooded area adjacent to the river. Peak winds were estimated around 105 mph.
Wind gusts estimated to be up to 85 mph snapped several large pine trees off about 10 feet off the ground, downed power lines, and destroyed a machine shed in Bellevue, IA around 1015 am CDT July 28. The debris from the machine shed blew across the street onto the DNR Building and broke the windshield of a DNR vehicle. A power outage was observed on the south side of town.
Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew down at least 20 large trees in the Kurth Addition about a half of a mile south of Bellevue, IA at 542 pm August 4. Power lines were also down.
The Mississippi River Lock and Dam 12 in Bellevue rose above its major flood stage of 20.0 feet around noon on July 5th and at 20.17 feet on July 7. The river fell back below flood stage around 2 AM on July 9.
Law enforcement reported flash flooding and road closures in Bellevue and locations along the creeks west of town. These included: 239TH Ave at Centerville Rd, 380th Ave...258th St between 283rd Ave and Mill Creek Rd.
A trained spotter estimated that thunderstorm winds were gusting to 60 mph. The gusts blew down some 2 inch diameter tree branches. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
The Emergency Manager for Jackson County reported that a few 2 inch tree limbs were down in the city of Bellevue. The time of the event was estimated from radar.
The river rose above flood stage at Bellevue on October 2 at 110 am cst and fell below flood stage on October 7 at 317 pm cst. Minor flooding occurred with the crest reaching 17.97 feet on October 4 at 7 am cst. Flood stage is 17 feet.
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
6 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.
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.
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