Poplar Rural District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Poplar Rural District is a nationally recognized historic district located north of Jacksonville, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Poplar Rural District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Audubon County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly, area from Poplar S and W to Wolf Cr., Jacksonville, 51543
When was it listed? April 1992
Category. district
Also known as. Ethnic Historic Settlement of Shelby and Audubon Counties MPS
National Register reference number. 91001463 - 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Rural District between 2010 and 2013, burning about 131 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	3
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
12 May 2013	Debris and open burning	120 acres	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
25 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 April 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	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
5 January 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 Poplar Rural District: 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

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
Bethany Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church	3.5 miles	1991
Hans J. Jorgensen Barn	3.8 miles	1991
Immanuel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church	3.9 miles	1991
Kimballton West 2nd-West 3rd Street Residential District	3.9 miles	1995
Kimballton Commercial District	4.0 miles	1995
Bennedsen, Boldt, and Hansen Building	4.0 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001463 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.