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Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District is a nationally recognized historic district located near Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. At the time of its nomination it contained 27 resources, which included 15 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, three contributing structures, and six non-contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 2469 IA 2, Fort Madison, 52625
  • When was it listed? September 2005
  • Category. district
  • Township. Jefferson township
  • National Register reference number. 05001020 - 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

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District between 2009 and 2018, burning about 214 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
29 April 2018Debris and open burning108 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Debris and open burning100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Molybdenum, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brockman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fort Madison Conversion Mo PlantMolybdenumProducer
Franklin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Graner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Madison, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Madison$50,000A renegade area of thunderstorms moved across southeast and east-central Iowa. One storm passed over the Montrose area, hail of about an inch diameter fell. Hail of three-quarters of an inch in diameter was also reported in West Point. Hail also pelted Earlville and New Vienna. Reports of several cars being damaged by hail were received from Earlville. High winds caused a building to collapse in Fort Madison.
April 1995HailFort Madison$10,000no account filed
April 1995HailFort Madison-no account filed
May 1995HailFort Madison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001020 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee CountyAll 48 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.