BlockFrom the record
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Mower County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Freund Store
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Co. Hwy. 7, Adams, 55909
- When was it listed? April 1986
- Category. building
- Township. Adams township
- National Register reference number. 86000867 - 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 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Freund Store in 2011, burning about 80 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 4903 LANCER AVE., IA |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Freund Store: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Osmundson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
18 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2014 | Heavy Rain | Adams | $30,000 | Heavy rains caused damage to a high school in Adams. Plugged drains on the roof caused water to fill air vents which then damaged the ceiling, some lighting and a piano inside the school. |
| August 2007 | Flood | Adams | $20,000 | Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | $15,000 | Wind damage occurred to a barn and outbuilding near Adams. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Adams | $10,000 | Sandbagging occurred in Adams and County Roads 4 and 7 near Adams were closed as water from several branches of the Little Cedar River were out of their banks. Flood waters covered much of the business district in Adams with little damage occurring to those that were able to sand bag. For those that didn't, water reached into the buildings creating minor damage. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | $8,500 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Adams | $7,500 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Adams | $4,000 | Hail occurring at intersection of County Highway 7 and 4. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | $1,500 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Adams | $1,000 | A brief tornado was witnessed by the Le Roy Fire Department storm spotters. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Adams | $800 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Adams | - | Ping pong ball sized hail fell just south of Adams. |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Adams | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near the Iowa state line southwest of Adams. |
| July 1995 | Tornado (F2) | Adams | - | A tornado touched down in Adams and moved northeast touching down several times. Several buildings were damaged or destroyed. Many trees uprooted. A church in Adams lost its steeple and bell tower. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Adams | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Adams | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | First National Bank of Adams | 5.0 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86000867 in Record Group 79. |
| Mower County | All 10 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.