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Byal Orchard Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Byal Orchard Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located northeast of Mingo, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”

Wikipedia article Byal Orchard Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Jasper County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. W. 108th St. about 1.5 mi. S of jct. with IA 223, Mingo, 50168
  • When was it listed? October 1994
  • Category. district
  • Township. Clear Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 94001255 - 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Byal Orchard Historic District between 2010 and 2019, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources5535 300TH ST., PALO ALTO CO. SW 1/4 OF SECTION 15
3 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Byal Orchard Historic District: 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
John Geisler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kilker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mingo, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003HailMingo$20,000no account filed
November 2005HailMingo$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMingo$2,000Large tree reportedly downed in Mingo by KCCI TV.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMingo-Estimated 70 to 80 wind gusts reported from Sheriff Deputy.
September 2019Tornado (EFU)Mingo-Tornado was suggested by a TDS on radar and subsequently confirmed via high resolution satellite imagery. A short path through rural cropland, hence the EF-U rating.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMingo-Estimated winds of 60 MPH along with pea size hail.
March 2007HailMingo-no account filed
June 2003HailMingo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001255 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jasper CountyAll 16 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.
  • 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.