Built in 1917 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Perry C. and Mattie Forrest Holdoegel House is a historic dwelling located in Rockwell City, Iowa, United States. Holdoegel was a member of the Iowa Senate who was responsible for the legislation that established the state park system in Iowa.”
Wikipedia article Perry C. and Mattie Forrest Holdoegel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1917, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.91001831- 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
13 since 2010
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Perry C. and Mattie Forrest Holdoegel House
between 2010 and 2019, burning about 120 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
5
Smoking
3
Debris and open burning
3
Equipment and vehicle use
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Perry C. and Mattie Forrest Holdoegel House: 2 past producers.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Rockwell City, the town this property stands in, in 79 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 30 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 12 heavy rain, 4 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.
Highway 4 south of Rockwell City is closed due to flooding. Humpty Dumpty Park in Rockwell City is flooded. Water reported in numerous basements in Manson.
Trained spotter reported numerous large branches, 3 to 4 inches in diameter, down in town along with a couple of trees, 9 to 12 inches in diameter, down. Also reported power lines down, but unknown if the cause were the downed trees. Delayed report, time radar estimated.
A weak cold front sagged southeast into Iowa during the afternoon of the 4th. The dynamics were not very strong with the system, however the wind shear was sufficient enough to produce severe weather. Low level winds were from the south-southeast with the middle and upper level flow fairly strong northwest. Thunderstorms erupted during the afternoon. The early storms produced a tornado over Emmet County. The tornado tracked across several miles of open country before lifting north of Armstrong. No significant damage was reported as the track was over bare ground. The main severe weather associated with the storms was hail. Although the storms did produce gusty winds in the 40 to 50 mph range, no severe winds were reported. Golf ball-size hail fell north of Armstrong from the storm that produced the tornado. Other storms formed in a line extending southwest from the tornadic cell. Golf ball-size hail was also reported in Clay County at Royal. As the storms progressed further southeast, the hail size diminished but not the amount. What began as marble-size hail at Sioux Rapids in Buena Vista County grew to over an inch in diameter. The hail fell for about a half hour, accumulating to a depth of two to four inches. Hail accumulated to a depth of six inches in the town of Royal, giving the town a winter like appearance. Pea-size hail covered the ground north of Algona and also in the northwest corner of Calhoun County. In Calhoun County, southwest of Rockwell City, dime-size hail accumulated to a depth of one inch. By the late afternoon hours, the hail size had diminished to one-half inch or less. The storms tracked as far southeast as central Iowa before dissipating.
No LSRs were transmitted from within the county during the August 10 derecho event. However, it is estimated by the NWS that areas of the county experienced severe winds and associated damage based on surrounding county LSRs and other available information.
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.
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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