August H. J. and Justena Lange Farmstead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The August H.J. and Justena Lange Farmstead Historic District is an agricultural historic district located northeast of La Porte City, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article August H.J. and Justena Lange Farmstead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Black Hawk County · listed in 1997 · 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 7 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lange, August H. J. and Justena, Farmstead Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8214 Spring Creek Rd., La Porte City, 50651
When was it listed? May 1997
Category. district
Township. Spring Creek township
National Register reference number. 97000385 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of August H. J. and Justena Lange Farmstead Historic District between 2006 and 2015, burning about 57 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	5
Debris and open burning	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
16 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Black Hawk County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of August H. J. and Justena Lange Farmstead Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fehl Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fox Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Franta Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Black Hawk County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Porte City, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$300,000	no account filed
June 1999	Flash Flood	La Porte City	$150,000	no account filed
April 2001	Tornado (F1)	La Porte City	$125,000	Tornado with intermittent track over open country.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$100,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$75,000	Aluminum machine shed was ripped off its foundation and blown anticyclonically north and east, destroying it. Debris from the shed continued in an anticyclonic path and was blown southward and wrapped into a grove of trees 100 feet to the east of the original location of the shed. Door from the machine shed was blown 15 feet into a neighboring corn field. Cattle barn 120 feet to the west was shifted south by 15 feet.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$50,000	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	La Porte City	$40,000	no account filed
May 2008	Flood	La Porte City	$25,000	Water was over Highway 218 near La Porte City.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$25,000	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	La Porte City	$20,000	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$10,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$5,000	The Black Hawk County EM reported tree and crop damage.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$5,000	Tree branches of 8 to 10 inches in diameter were blown down, blocking the road at Iowa and Sycamore. Reported by KWWL TV.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$5,000	Thunderstorms formed along a stationary frontal boundary across Iowa. Although they were widespread, there was little in the way of severe weather associated with them. One inch diameter IOWA Cont'd hail was reported on the south side of Waterloo. High winds were also reported in the area. Northeast of La Porte City saw high winds. A grove of maple trees, 20 in all, was downed by the high winds. The average diameter of the trees was about one foot. The storms produced heavy rainfall. A small area of east central Tama County into west central Benton County received very heavy rainfall. Three to six inches of rain fell in a 3 hour period in that area. A check with officials in the county indicated there was no significant flooding from the rains however.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$5,000	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	La Porte City	$3,000	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	$2,000	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	-	Measured by a personal weather station. Reports of trees down in town as well.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	-	Wind gust report from personal weather station.
May 2024	Hail	La Porte City	-	Hail broke windshield of car. Strong wind and heavy rain at the time.
July 2024	Hail	La Porte City	-	Relayed by broadcast media of 1-inch hail.
November 2022	Heavy Rain	La Porte City	-	A 24 hour rain total of 2.14 inches.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	La Porte City	-	Personal weather station recorded 4.23 inches of rainfall over the last 24 hours.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	La Porte City	-	Public weather station recorded 4.23 inches of rainfall over the last 24 hours.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	La Porte City	-	Personal weather station reported a 24 hour rain total of 3.92 inches.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	La Porte City	-	Mesonet station reported a 24 hour rain total of 5.94 inches thus far. Still raining at time of report.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	La Porte City	-	Trained spotter reported estimated 60 mph wind gusts just northwest of La Porte City on Highway 218 near Eagle Road.
June 2017	Hail	La Porte City	-	Public reported quarter sized hail via social media.

Every storm recorded in Black Hawk 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
Clement B. Gingrich House	7.4 miles	1996
Syndicate Block	7.5 miles	2005
Chapple and Young Block	7.5 miles	2002
La Porte City Station	7.5 miles	1979
Dr. Jesse Wasson Building	7.6 miles	1999
LaPorte City Town Hall and Fire Station	7.6 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000385 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Black Hawk County	All 51 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.