Reeves Farmstead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Reeves Farmstead Historic District was a nationally recognized historic district located north of Le Mars, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”
Wikipedia article Reeves Farmstead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Plymouth County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 15991 IA 60, LeMars, 51031
When was it listed? January 2001
Category. district
Township. Elgin township
National Register reference number. 00001680 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Reeves Farmstead Historic District between 2006 and 2018, burning about 45 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
Debris and open burning	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
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Plymouth County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Reeves Farmstead Historic District: 16 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Unknown	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Bedel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hogan Const Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hoss	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
L and M Sand and Gravel Site No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Laughton	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Leeds Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Maudlin Const Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maudlin Const Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Midwest Paving	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Plymouth 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
Le Mars Municipal Park and Golf Course Historic District	1.6 miles	2001
Le Mars Downtown Commercial Historic District	2.1 miles	2012
Sacred Heart Hospital	2.2 miles	2010
Tonsfeldt Round Barn	2.3 miles	1986
Le Mars Public Library	2.4 miles	1979
Plymouth County Courthouse	2.4 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001680 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Plymouth County	All 11 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.