Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Lu Verne City Jail, also known as the Old Calaboose, is a historic building located in Lu Verne, Iowa, United States. On May 6, 1912, they decided to build the current structure at the same location.”
Wikipedia article Lu Verne City Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Kossuth County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1912.
Also known as. Municipal, County and State Corrections Properties MPS
Township. Lu Verne township
When was it built? 1912
National Register reference number.92001662- 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
3 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lu Verne City Jail
between 2006 and 2012, burning about 25 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
2
Smoking
1
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Lu Verne City Jail: 2 past producers, 1 unknown.
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
Lu Verne, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 flood, 4 hail, 2 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.
The East Fork of the Des Moines at Algona crested at 20.73 ft on June 23 at 05:15 am CDT. The river remained in flood through the end of the month and into July.
The East Fork of the Des Moines River at Algona crested twice through the period of flooding. The first crest was 18.69 feet on 22 June 2018 at 22:15 UTC, the second crest was 19.33 feet on 26 June 2018 at 10:45 UTC.
Kossuth County EM reports a swath of wind damage from Lu Verne extending 6 miles west and 4 miles north. Trees and power lines were downed and crops were flattened.
The East Fork of the Des Moines River at Algona crested two times during the flood period. The first crest was 18.63 feet on 18 March 2019 at 03:45 UTC and the second crest was 18.60 feet on 19 March 2019 at 03:30 UTC.
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.
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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