Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“The Bigler Building, also known as the Riegel Blacksmith Shop, is a historic building located in Clermont, Iowa, United States. The simple, single-story brick structure was built in about 1906 by Fred Bigler who operated the local lumberyard and was a contractor.”
Wikipedia article Bigler Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.95000691- 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 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bigler Building
between 2009 and 2014, burning about 2 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
3
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
14 workings within 5 miles of Bigler Building: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 3 unknowns.
3 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Clermont, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 4 hail, 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.
Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Clermont. The river crested over six feet above the flood stage at 22.32 feet. The flood waters damaged the waste water treatment facility.
Trees were blown down in Clermont. At least one tree landed on a house and another destroyed a garage. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in a campground on the southwest edge of town.
Strong upper air dynamics combined with a cold front moved into Iowa. The airmass remained very unstable with surface dew point temperatures in the lower to middle 70s. The moisture layer was deep with 850 mb dew point temperatures around 15° C. Thunderstorms occurred during the early morning hours over western Iowa. The outflow boundary from that complex advanced into the central part of the state by sunrise. Thunderstorms developed throughout the day along this outflow boundary. During the afternoon hours they became severe. Several tornadoes were spawned. Two weak tornadoes touched down briefly in north central Iowa. One was in Winnebago County, the other in Worth County. Neither of them caused any significant damage as they occurred in open country. A fairly strong tornado touched down in Chickasaw County. The tornado touched down southwest of New Hampton and tracked northeast. It his a truck repair shop at the intersection of U.S. Highway 63 and County Highway B54. The roof was removed from the repair facility. Most of the tornado track was through open country, which kept damage to a minimum. The same parent storm caused high winds at the intersection of U.S. Highway 63 and Iowa Highway 18. The winds removed the roof from a car wash there and also damaged several cars in the parking lot there. Debris from the tornado broke windows and punctured the tires on two trucks in the lot. Another tornado made a cameo touchdown in a field north of Clermont in Fayette County. In addition to the tornadoes, there were a few other funnel cloud reports. None of these touched down to become tornadoes. Many of the storms over the east half of the state produced gusty winds and small hail. Only a few were strong enough to become severe. One storm caused wind damage in Bremer County. High winds blew the roof off of a barn and downed trees and power lines south of Plainfield. Another storm uprooted several trees in Waverly. Damage of $10,000-$15,000 was reported in Fredericksburg as high winds damaged the roof of a service station.
Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Turkey River out of its banks near Clermont. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 826.41 feet on March 15th.
Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks over the northeast part of Fayette County. The high water threatened campgrounds in both Clermont and Elgin.
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.
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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