Built in 1906 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“The Eldon Public Library is a public library and historic building located in Eldon, Iowa, United States. Established in 1906, the present building, completed in 1913 with a donation from Andrew Carnegie, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Eldon Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Wapello County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1906, Neoclassical architecture.
National Register reference number.96000604- 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
9 since 2017
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Eldon Carnegie Public Library
between 2017 and 2019, burning about 112 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
7
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Eldon Carnegie Public Library: 5 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Eldon, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 flood, 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 6 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Wapello County EM and City of Eldon reported tree damage and power outages due to thunderstorm winds in the town of Eldon. Downed trees were reported to be blocking roadways and the City of Eldon spent the next few days cleaning up tree damage. One tree fell on and injured a motorcyclist driving through town.
The Des Moines River at Ottumwa crested several times at the end of May. The first crest was at 12.51 feet on 25 May 2019 at 16:30 UTC, the second crest at 13.43 feet on 28 May 2019 at 02:40 UTC, and the third crest at 16.28 feet on 29 May 2019 at 20:10 UTC.
Emergency management reported flash flooding including the flooding of the basement of Eldon City Hall and street and highway flooding in and around the town of Eldon.
A trained spotter relayed that multiple creeks were out of banks with and estimated 6 inch depth of water flowing across highway 16. Spotter was uncertain when flooding began.
The Des Moines River at Ottumwa crested at 12.1 feet on 18 May 2019 at 00:50 UTC. While heavy rain did fall at times during the period, the majority of the reason the river is in flood was due to increased releases from Lake Red Rock.
The Des Moines River at Ottumwa crested at 13.53 feet on 19 May 2019 at 12:10 UTC. While heavy rain did fall at times during the period, the majority of the reason the river is in flood was due to increased releases from Lake Red Rock.
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
5 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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