Samuel and Sarah Hulme House

Built in 1862 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Samuel and Sarah Hulme House is a historic building located north of Trenton, Iowa, United States. The earliest houses in Jefferson Township were log cabins, followed by wooden frame structures, and then brick as the technology advanced.”
Wikipedia article Samuel and Sarah Hulme House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1862, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hulme, Samuel and Sarah, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1577 Franklin Ave., Trenton, 52654
When was it listed? July 2019
Category. building
Township. Jefferson township
When was it built? 1862
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 100004114 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Samuel and Sarah Hulme House between 2013 and 2018, burning about 41 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	3

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
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2017	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 November 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Samuel and Sarah Hulme House: 1 past producer. None of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bain Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trenton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2010	Flash Flood	Trenton	$10,000	Up to 5 inches of rain resulted in flash flooding across Henry County, with water over roads in more than 100 places at one point. Five roads were officially closed due to the flash flooding.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Trenton	-	A trained spotter estimated winds up to 65 mph occurred.
October 2000	Hail	Trenton	-	Hail the size of nickels covered the ground.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Benjamin Chapel and Richwoods Cemetery	3.9 miles	2015
Schantz, Christian K. and Margaret (Rich), House and Carpentry Shop	4.8 miles	2021
West Main Street Residential Historic District	4.8 miles	2023
John Hultquist House	5.2 miles	1999
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church	5.3 miles	1999
Swedesburg Historic Commercial District	5.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004114 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 54 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.