Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Narrow Gauge Depot-LaMotte

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Paul Narrow Gauge Depot-LaMotte is a historic building formerly located in La Motte, Iowa, United States. The Chicago, Bellevue, Cascade & Western Railroad was incorporated in August 1877, to build a narrow-gauge railway from Bellevue to Cascade.”
Wikipedia article Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Narrow Gauge Depot-LaMotte, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 77 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1995 · 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

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Narrow Gauge Depot--LaMotte - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Market St., LaMotte, 52054
When was it listed? February 1995
Category. building
Also known as. Advent & Development of Railroads in Iowa MPS
Township. Richland township
Architect. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
National Register reference number. 95000105 - 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

22 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Narrow Gauge Depot-LaMotte between 2009 and 2018, burning about 260 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
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
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 2012	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 June 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Narrow Gauge Depot-LaMotte: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Cadmium, Lead. 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	Recorded
Graham Mill-Concentrator	Zinc, Cadmium, Lead	Past Producer
Zwingle Mines and Occurrences	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Galena, Sphalerite
Arnsdorf	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Beckley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Koos Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
La Motte Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Harris Wagon and Carriage Shop	0.2 miles	1992
Robb House and Spring House	4.2 miles	1991
St. Lawrence Catholic Church	5.1 miles	1992
Big Mill Homestead	5.6 miles	1991
Upper Paradise	6.1 miles	1991
Gehlen House and Barn	6.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000105 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 77 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.