"Lockkeeper's" House

Built in 1857 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“"Lockkeeper's" House is a historic building located south of Eldon along the Des Moines River in Davis County, Iowa, United States. More specifically it is located in Section 12 of Salt Creek Township.”
Wikipedia article Lockkeeper's House (Davis County, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Davis County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1857, vernacular architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Whitefish Trail, Eldon, 52554
When was it listed? October 2009
Category. building
Township. Salt Creek township
When was it built? 1857
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 09000826 - 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

8 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of "Lockkeeper's" House between 2017 and 2019, burning about 199 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	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 May 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 March 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 March 2017	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 March 2017	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 March 2017	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 February 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of "Lockkeeper's" House: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Zinc. 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	Recorded
Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Gardner Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hootman Farm Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Nupp Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Selma-Nedrow Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Davis 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000826 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Davis County	All 12 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.