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Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District is a farm in Guthrie County, Iowa, United States, near the city of Coon Rapids. It is significant as the home of farmer and hybrid corn populizer Roswell Garst.”

Wikipedia article Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Guthrie County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Garst, Roswell and Elizabeth, Farmstead Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1390 IA 141, Coon Rapids, 50058
  • When was it listed? August 2009
  • Category. district
  • Township. Orange township
  • National Register reference number. 09000610 - 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

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District between 2007 and 2009, burning about 16 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

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
1 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Guthrie County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Alex Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H B JenelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
P. BrutscheSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Viola HartSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Guthrie 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John Cretsinger House4.1 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000610 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Guthrie CountyAll 8 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.