Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Passenger Depot-Dows

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Passenger Depot-Dows, also known as the Dows Rock Island Depot, is an historic building located in Dows, Iowa, United States. The depot was built in 1896 and served the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway as a combination passenger and freight station.”
Wikipedia article Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Passenger Depot-Dows, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Passenger Depot--Dows - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 200 Railroad St., Dows, 50071
When was it listed? January 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Advent & Development of Railroads in Iowa MPS
Township. Blaine township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 92001744 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Passenger Depot-Dows: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dows Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Denger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dows Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Marlowe Oakland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Meineke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Patterson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stuck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this property

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dows, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 1995	Hail	Dows	$75,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$50,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$45,000	Significant damage to an outbuilding on a farm near Dows. Images found via social media.
March 2005	Tornado (F1)	Dows	$30,000	Tornado destroyed a garage and ripped the roof off of a barn northwest of Dows.
April 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Dows	$20,000	This tornado entered into Wright County from Hamilton County. The tornado immediately impacted a hog confinement building upon entering the county producing severe damage to the back third of one of the buildings with EF1 damage. The tornado continued northward before a more northwest movement occurred and dissipated shortly thereafter.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$20,000	Semi blown over at mile post 154 on I-35.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$10,000	Trained spotter reports wind gusts in excess of 60 MPH. Power out in Dows.
April 2008	Hail	Dows	$10,000	no account filed
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$10,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$10,000	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$5,000	A large tree branch was downed. It took out a power line and blocked a road.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$5,000	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$5,000	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Dows	$3,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Dows	$2,000	Report was received from a KCCI TV viewer. Time was estimated.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	$2,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Dows	$2,000	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Dows	$2,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	-	Wind gust measured by an RWIS from the Iowa DOT.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	-	Williams RWIS report of 50 knot wind.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	-	Fire department reported large limbs down in town of around 6 to 8 inches in diameter.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Dows	-	Public reported heavy rainfall of 3.25 inches and still raining as of time of the report.
June 2017	Funnel Cloud	Dows	-	Public reported a funnel cloud looking north of the truck stop near I-35 and Highway 20 interchange.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	-	Iowa DOT RWIS station measured a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2010	Funnel Cloud	Dows	-	Small short-lived funnels extending less than half way down from the base of the cloud.
May 2010	Hail	Dows	-	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dows	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
	Quasdorf Blacksmith and Wagon Shop	under 500 feet	1994
	Fillmore Block	under 500 feet	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001744 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wright County	All 9 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.
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.