Murray General Merchandise Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Murray General Merchandise Store, also known as Murray Hall, is a historic building located in Little Sioux, Iowa, United States. A native Scot, Michael Murray operated a general store from this location from 1877, when it was built, to 1916 when he died.”
Wikipedia article Murray General Merchandise Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harrison County · listed in 1998 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Mulberry and Second Sts., Little Sioux, 51545
When was it listed? July 1998
Category. building
Township. Little Sioux township
National Register reference number. 98000930 - 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Murray General Merchandise Store between 2006 and 2017, burning about 310 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	10

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
4 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	202 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1801 124TH TRAIL, PISGAH, IA
24 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 December 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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 Murray General Merchandise Store: 4 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
J Mcwilliams	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Little Sioux Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pisgah Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wallace Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this property

57 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Sioux, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 33 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	$100,000	Two glass windows were blown out of a home.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	$100,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	$1,000	Thunderstorm wind gust over 60 mph blew the windows out of some outbuildings north of Little Sioux, Iowa. From the same mini-supercell which produced the tornadoes near Crescent, Treynor and Mineola, Iowa. Reported by a cooperative observer.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees causing damage to 2 sheds near Little Sioux.
April 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Little Sioux	-	A tornado developed approximately 1.5 miles north-northwest of Little Sioux, IA at 12:46 PM CST. The tornado began just southeast of the intersection of 120th Street and Dayton Avenue, before flipping a center pivot. It continued northeast, damaging farm outbuildings, trees, and power poles near 120th Street and Early Avenue. Just over 1 mile northeast of this intersection, another center pivot was flipped over. The tornado then turned slightly more eastward and tore the fabric roofing off part of a hoop barn near Gage Lane and Easton Trail. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 105 mph.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	An Iowa Department of Transportation automated station recorded a 61 mile per hour wind gust.
June 2024	Hail	Little Sioux	-	A trained spotter reported ping-pong ball sized hail.
June 2024	Hail	Little Sioux	-	A trained spotter reported 3 inch hail.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	A trained spotter reported a measured wind gust of 65 miles per hour.
June 2024	Hail	Little Sioux	-	A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail.
September 2023	Hail	Little Sioux	-	Emergency Manager reported quarter sized hail in Little Sioux.
September 2019	Hail	Little Sioux	-	A Coop observer reported hail up to golf ball size.
May 2018	Heavy Rain	Little Sioux	-	Heavy rain that totaled 2.97 inches fell in over an hour near Little Sioux. Fields were flooded.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Winds of 60 mph were estimated by a Cooperative Weather Observer near Little Sioux.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	The observed reported wind gusts to 60 mph and small hail with the line of thunderstorms.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	The Little Sioux COOP Observer estimated winds to 60 mph.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	The COOP observer estimated the gust.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Several tree limbs around 3 or 4 inches in diameter were downed by thunderstorm winds that were estimated at close to 60 mph.
June 2009	Hail	Little Sioux	-	Accompanied by 40 mph winds.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	A cooperative observer near Little Sioux estimated thunderstorm winds around 70 mph knocked down 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs and flattened corn in the area.
June 2008	Hail	Little Sioux	-	The hail was accompanied by a wind gust of around 55 mph.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at around 60 mph downed a few 12 to 18 foot tree limbs.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Thunderstorm winds blew a semi over at mile marker 94 on Interstate 29. Large tree branches and power lines were also downed in the area and a roof of a house sustained damage.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Several large tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged a roof and trees near Little Sioux.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	A cooperative observer estimated thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph near Little Sioux.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	A Cooperative Observer estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph peeled the roof off of a machine shed. The winds also ripped a 4 inch diameter limb off of a healthy tree.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew 6 to 8 inch diameter branches off trees near Little Sioux.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew over a few trees, shredded a cornfield and blew the trellis off of a house northwest of Little Sioux.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph by a cooperative observer knocked down 3 inch tree limbs and blew the roof off of a patio.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	A cooperative observer near Little Sioux, Iowa reported thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph blew part of a roof off of a shed.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	A cooperative observer near Little Sioux estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph in addition to 1 inch hail. The winds also overturned a semi truck on I-29 near town.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	A thunderstorm wind gust, estimated at between 55 and 60 mph by a cooperative observer, damaged large tree branches and caused minor roof damage near Little Sioux.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Cooperative Observer measured a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust weather equipment.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts between 55 and 60 mph downed small trees near Little Sioux.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Thunderstorm wind damage was reported by a cooperative observer. Trees and a corn crib were damaged by winds estimated between 65 and 70 mph.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Tree limbs downed.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	Roof blown off a grain bin near Smith Lake.
June 2014	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
May 1998	Funnel Cloud	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Little Sioux	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Little Sioux	-	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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000930 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.