Built in 1937 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located north of Milford, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Dickinson County · listed in 1991 · category: District · built in 1937, rustic architecture.
National Register reference number.91001830- 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
25 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Historic District
between 2006 and 2017, burning about 624 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
19
Debris and open burning
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
31 July 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
16 May 2017
Debris and open burning
2.2 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
9 April 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
60 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
A34, 2235 193RD AVE., OKOBOJI TWP, BY LITTLE SIOUX
9 April 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
not named
7 April 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
25271 182ND ST., CENTER GROVE TWP, SPIRIT LAKE, IA
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
31 workings within 5 miles of Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Historic District: 23 past producers, 7 producers, 1 unknown.
7 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Milford, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 15 flood, 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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.
Runoff from repeated rains caused minor flooding of agricultural land along the Little Sioux River. The river reached a peak stage 0.8 feet above flood stage at Milford at the end of the month.
Persistent heavy rains caused major flooding of the Little Sioux River. Farmland, other lowlands including parks, and several roads near the river were flooded. Some homes were flooded, mainly in basements. The river crested at 5.37 feet above flood stage at Milford on June 19th.
Runoff from heavy rain caused minor flooding of the Little Sioux River, with lowlands including some farmland and a few roads affected. The river crested at 1.7 feet above flood stage near Milford on May 31st.
Moderate flooding of the Little Sioux River resulted from runoff caused by heavy rain. Lowlands including some farmland along the river were flooded. The river crested at 3.0 feet above flood stage near Milford on June 21st.
Melting snow and resulting runoff caused minor flooding along the Little Sioux River, with unused lowlands mainly affected. The river crested at less than a foot above flood stage at Milford late on February 18th.
Major flooding of the Little Sioux River resulted from runoff caused by heavy rain. Considerable farmland, other lowlands, and several roads were flooded. The river crested at a record 5.5 feet above flood stage near Milford on July 15th.
Heavy rain caused minor to moderate flooding along the Little Sioux River, with farmland and other lowlands affected. A few roads were also flooded. The river crested at 4 feet above flood stage near Milford on September 27th.
Minor to moderate flooding of the Little Sioux River abated and ended during the first few days of the month. A few lowlands along the river and a few roads were flooded at the start of the month.
Heavy rain caused minor to moderate flooding along the Little Sioux River, with lowlands including some agricultural land flooded. The river crested at 2.21 feet above flood stage at Milford on July 26th.
Rapid melting of a heavy winter snowpack resulted in moderate to major flooding of the Little Sioux River. Fields and other lowlands as well as roads near the river were flooded. The Little Sioux River crested at 4.65 feet above flood stage near Milford on March 17th.
Heavy rain caused minor flooding of farmland along the Little Sioux River from June 12th to June 14th, except over the far southern part of Dickinson County, where minor flooding continued from the beginning of June to June 14th.
Warm temperatures caused a rapid snowmelt which caused the Little Sioux River to rise above flood stage for several days. The flooding vwas light to moderate, and no significant damage was reported. The river crested at 3.8 feet above flood stage at Milford on March 15th.|
Very heavy rainfall over several days caused major to record flooding in the headwater area of the Little Sioux River, with lowlands including several roads flooded, and at least one road washed out. The river crested at 4.8 feet above flood stage near Milford on August 23rd.
Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. The winds also severely damaged crops, mainly corn, along a 3 mile long stretch. The amount of crop damage was not known.
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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