James C. Twiss House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Twiss, James C., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 298 N. Page St., Aviston, 62216
When was it listed? February 2010
Category. building
Township. Sugar Creek township
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 10000020 - 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.

Storms near this property

32 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aviston, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024	Hail	Aviston	$100,000	Large hail of up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell along US 50 in Clinton County. North of Carlyle, widespread damage to siding was reported along with one broken window. Other cities along the path of the storm include Aviston, Breese, Beckemeyer, and Huey.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a shed and fence in Aviston.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds blew some shingles off the roof of a building in town.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	Thunderstorm winds uprooted a 4 foot diameter pine tree.
April 2025	Hail	Aviston	-	Broadcast media relayed photos of 1.5 inch to 2 inch hailstones from social media.
October 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	Trained spotter estimated a wind gust of 65 mph in Aviston.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	A wide swath of damaging winds moved through Clinton County. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Aviston, Albers, Germantown, and Bartelso. In Aviston, part of the roof of a local restaurant was blown off.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	Thunderstorm winds blew off some shingles on a few homes around Aviston. One mile west of Breese, a shed was blown down.
September 2012	Hail	Aviston	-	Large hail up to tennis ball size damaged shingles on numerous homes in Aviston.
April 2012	Hail	Aviston	-	Numerous reports of golfball to hen egg size hail throughout town.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs and a couple of power lines.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	Downburst winds caused damage in an area from just southwest of Aviston through Breese, Beckemeyer, Carlyle, across Carlyle Lake, and into Boulder. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. Also, several fields of corn were flattened. Some homes sustained minor shingle damage in Aviston. No injuries were reported.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	Several telephone poles were broken. Also, numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
March 2005	Hail	Aviston	-	A storm spotter reported nickel size hail in Aviston.
April 2003	Hail	Aviston	-	The County Sheriff reported 1 inch hail.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage in Trenton and Aviston. Trees and power lines were down and corn in a field was flattened by the wind.
April 2025	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
January 2012	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
January 2008	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Aviston	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Aviston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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 10000020 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton County	All 2 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.
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.