Woodbine Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Woodbine Public Library, also known as Carnegie Public Library, is located in Woodbine, Iowa, United States. The library was organized in 1907, and it was initially housed in the jail section of city hall.”
Wikipedia article Woodbine Public Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harrison County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 58 5th St., Woodbine, 51579
When was it listed? May 1997
Category. building
Township. Boyer township
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
National Register reference number. 97000462 - 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Woodbine Public Library in 2014, burning about 1 acre 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

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
9 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woodbine Public Library: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Woodbine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this property

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodbine, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 21 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023	Hail	Woodbine	-	Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING.
May 2022	Hail	Woodbine	-	Law enforcement reported 1 inch hail.
May 2022	Hail	Woodbine	-	Trained spotter reported half-dollar sized hail.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbine	-	A barn was destroyed by high winds in Woodbine.
August 2018	Heavy Rain	Woodbine	-	The public reported a storm total rainfall of 11.90.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbine	-	A roof was blown off an industrial building along with widespread tree damage in and west of the town of Woodbine.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbine	-	Rear flank downdraft winds produced tree damage along a wind break along Highway 30.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbine	-	A spotter reported that a grain auger and a grain dryer were blown over. The spotter estimated wind gusts to 70 mph.
July 2012	Hail	Woodbine	-	Most of the hail was dime-size and smaller, but a few stones reached around nickel-size. The hail was accompanied by winds around 50 mph which downed one small tree limb in the area.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbine	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph knocked down numerous 3 to 4 inch limbs and split at least several other larger trees. One large branch was toppled onto a moving pickup severely damaging its front end.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbine	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew down several large tree limbs in Woodbine.
May 2004	Hail	Woodbine	-	Hail up to nickel size was reported from Woodbine to 4 miles southwest of town.
April 2002	Hail	Woodbine	-	After the tornado southwest of Woodbine lifted, it was still producing large hail.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbine	-	Grain bin destroyed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodbine	-	Many tree limbs downed.
June 2014	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Woodbine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Woodbine Savings Bank	under 500 feet	2012
Woodbine Lincoln Highway and Brick Street Historic District	0.1 miles	2013
Siebels' Department Store-Boyer Valley Bank	0.2 miles	2012
Woodbine Normal and Grade School	0.2 miles	2002
State Savings Bank	7.8 miles	1985
Harrison County Courthouse	7.9 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000462 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harrison County	All 13 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.