Gary J. and Matilda Vermeer Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The Gary J. and Matilda Vermeer Farmstead is a historic building located east of Pella, Iowa, United States, in Mahaska County. Gerrit "Gary" Vermeer was born on a farm outside of Pella on September 29, 1918, and was educated in the local schools.”
Wikipedia article Gary J. and Matilda Vermeer Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Mahaska County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Vermeer, Gary J. and Matilda, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1688 250th Ave., Pella, 50219
When was it listed? July 2018
Category. district
Township. Black Oak township
National Register reference number. 100002682 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gary J. and Matilda Vermeer Farmstead in 2009, burning about 120 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/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
15 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Mahaska 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 Gary J. and Matilda Vermeer Farmstead: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Durham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Peoria Quarry No. 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
South River Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Tunis Goemaat Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Vanderkraats Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Witzenberg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mahaska 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

3 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
John K. Voorhees House	2.9 miles	1982
Vander Wilt Farmstead Historic District	4.3 miles	2004
Bellefountain Bridge	5.3 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002682 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mahaska County	All 49 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.