Chris Poldberg Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Chris Poldberg Farmstead is a collection of historic domestic and agricultural buildings located southeast of Jacksonville, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article Chris Poldberg Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Shelby 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

Listed as. Poldberg, Chris, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 0.5 mi. S of IA 44 on Wolf Cr., Jacksonville, 51537
When was it listed? October 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Ethnic Historic Settlement of Shelby and Audubon Counties MPS
Township. Jackson township
National Register reference number. 91001459 - 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 Chris Poldberg Farmstead between 2010 and 2013, burning about 3 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
30 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2020 900TH ST., HARLAN, IOWA
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
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 Shelby County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	$20,000	Machine shed destroyed.
June 2014	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Jacksonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
	Jens Otto Christiansen House	4.2 miles	1997
	Chris Larsen House	4.3 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001459 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shelby County	All 13 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.