BlockBefore
Photograph of Sherrill Mount House
Photograph by James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sherrill Mount House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Sherrill Mount House, also known as the Fries Hotel, Moundside Apartments, and The Inn at Sherrill, is a historic building located in Sherrill, Iowa, United States. This is one of the few surviving pre-Civil War hotels left in Iowa, and one of the largest early stone structures remaining in rural Dubuque County.”

Wikipedia article Sherrill Mount House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Dubuque County · listed in 2002 · 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. 5259 S. Mound Rd., Sherrill, 52073
  • When was it listed? July 2002
  • Category. building
  • Township. Jefferson township
  • National Register reference number. 02000760 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sherrill Mount House in 2007, burning about 2 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/undetermined1

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
26 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Sherrill Mount House: 8 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. 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
Bonson MineZinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerGalena, Limonite, Sphalerite
Durango Drybone Mine Ewing DiggingsLead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Smithsonite
Bonson MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Dubuque SubdistrictZinc, LeadPast ProducerMISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD-ZINC
Durango Drybone MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Sherrill Mound SubdistrictZinc, LeadPast ProducerMISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE LEAD ZINC
Sherrills Mound MinesLeadPast Producer
Klein QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kutsch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mattloch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherrill, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
March 2020Tornado (EF1)Sherrill-An EF-1 tornado developed southeast of Sherrill and moved northeast causing significant damage to outbuildings and uprooting trees at several farmsteads. The tornado was rated EF-1 with maximum wind speeds estimated around 110 mph. There were no injuries, and the damaged ended before it crossed the Mississippi River.
June 2015HailSherrill-no account filed
May 2002HailSherrill-no account filed
June 2000HailSherrill-no account filed
September 2000HailSherrill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubuque 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

5 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000760 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dubuque CountyAll 84 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.