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Photograph of State Savings Bank
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

State Savings Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“State Savings Bank is a historic building located in Quasqueton, Iowa, United States. It was originally built as a three-story warehouse and commercial sales building in 1852.”

Wikipedia article State Savings Bank (Quasqueton, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Buchanan County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 103 N. Water St., Quasqueton, 52326
  • When was it listed? August 1999
  • Category. building
  • Township. Liberty township
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 99001031 - 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of State Savings Bank in 2015, burning about 65 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 October 2015Debris and open burning65 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Buchanan County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of State Savings Bank: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chesmore QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rasmussen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sells QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Burns PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buchanan County

Storms near this property

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quasqueton, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindQuasqueton$250,000Wind gusts estimated to be around 80 mph caused widespread tree damage with tree limbs over 8 inches in diameter and trees over 3 feet in diameter blown down along a path from 2 miles south of Quasqueton, IA in Buchanan County, to Walker, IA in Linn County, along Highway W35 and Highway W6E to Center Point, IA in Linn County between 745 am and 830 am June 19. Some houses and many out buildings were damaged by falling trees. Power lines were also knocked down across much of the area. The end time of the damage was around 830 am.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Quasqueton$5,000Rated high F0
July 2020Thunderstorm WindQuasqueton-Tree and crop damage around Quasqueton due to straight line winds.
May 2013Flash FloodQuasqueton-Water was reported over River Drive in town, along with fields and ditches flooded between Independence and Quasqueton.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindQuasqueton-A trained spotter reported tree limbs of 2 to 5 inches were down and estimated the wind speed to be around 55 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindQuasqueton-The Emergency Manager estimated wind speeds of 50 to 60 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindQuasqueton-Several trees and large branches 4 to 12 inches in diameter were blown down along with a dozen shingles blown off of the house. There were also two skylights broken out. The report was delayed and the time was estimated using radar.
July 2011Flash FloodQuasqueton-Heavy rains of 4 to 4.50 inches which fell between 9 pm CDT July 22 and 615 am CDT July 23 resulted in some flash flooding in the Quasqueton, IA area during the morning of July 23. A nearby pasture was flooded and a power outage was also observed.
April 2001HailQuasqueton-Penny sized hail on county highway W35. Reported by trained storm spotter.
June 2013HailQuasqueton-no account filed
April 2002Funnel CloudQuasqueton-no account filed
November 2000Funnel CloudQuasqueton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buchanan 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lowell E. Walter House1.1 miles1983
Taylor's Ford Bridge2.6 miles1998
Wapsipinicon River Bridge8.0 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001031 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Buchanan CountyAll 20 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.