American House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The American House, also known as the American Hotel, Evans Hotel, and Ryan House, is a historic building located in McGregor, Iowa, United States. Harding had the three-story structure built in 1854.”
Wikipedia article American House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Clayton County · listed in 2001 · 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. 116 Main St., McGregor, 52157
When was it listed? August 2001
Category. building
Township. Mendon township
National Register reference number. 01000913 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of American House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 110 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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 burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	HORSE CAMP FIRE
29 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 June 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 May 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BUTTERFLY ROCKET
19 May 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	VINEYARD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of American House: 5 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Own Crews	Stone	Unknown
Own Crews	Stone	Unknown
Lakeside Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Prairie Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pretitti Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Marquette Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Mcgregor Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Wetzel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGregor, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McGregor	$50,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Reynolds, Joseph "Diamond Jo," Office Building and House	0.1 miles	1982
McGregor Commercial Historic District	0.1 miles	2002
American School of Wild Life Protection Historic District	0.2 miles	1991
Christian Bloedel Wagon Works	0.5 miles	2009
Peter Stauer House	0.7 miles	2003
German Methodist Episcopal Church	6.1 miles	2026

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000913 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clayton County	All 54 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.