Hans M. Koch House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Koch House, also known as the Brickyard Residence, is a historic building located in the extreme southern portion of Kimballton, Iowa, United States. Its significance is derived from its association with the Danish immigrant settlement of the area, and the skilled Danish craftsman who lived and worked here.”
Wikipedia article Hans M. Koch House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Audubon 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Koch, Hans M., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. IA 173, W. side, 0.5 mi. S of Kimballton, Kimballton, 51543
When was it listed? October 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Ethnic Historic Settlement of Shelby and Audubon Counties MPS
Township. Sharon township
National Register reference number. 91001453 - 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

11 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hans M. Koch House between 2010 and 2013, burning about 103 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
13 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	206 E HWY 44, KIMBALLTON, IOWA
28 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 March 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 November 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Audubon 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 Hans M. Koch House: 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
	Christenson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Audubon County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimballton, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 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
May 2004	Flash Flood	Kimballton	$25,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Kimballton	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kimballton	$10,000	no account filed
May 2005	Tornado (F0)	Kimballton	$2,000	Tornado tracked through open fields.
May 2005	Tornado (F0)	Kimballton	$2,000	Tornado tracked through open fields.
May 2004	Hail	Kimballton	$2,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Kimballton	$1,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kimballton	-	Public relayed report form personal weather station of wind gusts of 58+ mph.

Every storm recorded in Audubon 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jens T. Larsen House	0.5 miles	1991
Kimballton West 2nd-West 3rd Street Residential District	0.6 miles	1995
Bennedsen, Boldt, and Hansen Building	0.6 miles	1991
Kimballton Commercial District	0.6 miles	1995
Immanuel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church	0.7 miles	1991
Hans J. Jorgensen Barn	0.8 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001453 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Audubon County	All 15 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.