Renwick Generating Plant

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Renwick Generating Plant, also known as the Municipal Steam Light Plant, is a historical industrial facility located in Renwick, Iowa, United States. Long was an engineer who was contracted in 1914 to design a steam-powered electrical light plant.”
Wikipedia article Renwick Generating Plant, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 103 N. Field St., Renwick, 50577
When was it listed? February 1995
Category. district
Township. Vernon township
National Register reference number. 95000099 - 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

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Renwick Generating Plant in 2012, burning about 21 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
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 October 2012	Smoking	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Renwick Generating Plant: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Amosson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
White Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this property

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Renwick, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Renwick	$100,000	Law Enforcement reported one-third of a roof gone from an implement and farm supply store. Additionally, a camper on its side, multiple power lines down, and large trees down throughout town blocking numerous streets. A grain bin was also reported collapsed at the Co-op.
June 2007	Hail	Renwick	$40,000	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Renwick	$25,000	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Renwick	$25,000	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Renwick	$10,000	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Renwick	$5,000	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Renwick	$2,000	Public reported several large trees down in town.
May 2004	Hail	Renwick	$2,000	no account filed
June 2018	Funnel Cloud	Renwick	-	Humboldt County Emergency Manager and County Dispatch relayed multiple received reports of funnel clouds in the area.
June 2007	Hail	Renwick	-	no account filed
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Renwick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Humboldt 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 95000099 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Humboldt County	All 7 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.