Walter A. Sheaffer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Sheaffer House, also known as the Craig & Margaret Abolt House, is a historic residence located in Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”
Wikipedia article Walter A. Sheaffer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 2006 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sheaffer, Walter A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 11 High Point, Fort Madison, 52627
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. building
Township. Madison township
Architectural style. Jacobean architecture
National Register reference number. 06000858 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Walter A. Sheaffer House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 62 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
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	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
4 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 March 2020	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 February 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Walter A. Sheaffer House: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fort Madison Agrico	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Plant
Fort Madison Phosphoric Acid Plant	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Madison	$50,000	A 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 1995	Hail	Fort Madison	$10,000	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Fort Madison	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Fort 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Craig and Virginia Sheaffer House	under 500 feet	1993
Iowa State Penitentiary Cellhouses Historic District	0.5 miles	1992
Fort Madison Bridge	0.6 miles	1999
Fort Madison Bridge	0.9 miles	1999
George E. Schlapp House	1.1 miles	1982
Chief Justice Joseph M. Beck House	1.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000858 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee County	All 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.