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One of 23 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Samuel and Mercy Paine House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Paine, Samuel and Mercy, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 27421 Cty. Rd. J40, Bentonsport, 52565
- When was it listed? June 2022
- Category. building
- Township. Washington township
- National Register reference number. 100007880 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Samuel and Mercy Paine House in 2008, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Samuel and Mercy Paine House: 3 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dawson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Downing Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bentonsport, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bentonsport | $2,000 | tree down on power line. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Bentonsport | - | A reserve officer observed a brief tornado touchdown north of Bonaparte, IA around 425 pm CDT June 21. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Bentonsport | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Bentonsport | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Vernon School | 0.6 miles | 2002 |
 | Des Moines River Locks No. 5 and No. 7 | 2.9 miles | 1977 |
 | Meek's Flour Mill | 2.9 miles | 1983 |
 | Bonaparte Historic Riverfront District | 2.9 miles | 1989 |
| Aunty Green Hotel | 3.0 miles | 1978 | |
 | Bonaparte Pottery Archeological District | 3.1 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007880 in Record Group 79. |
| Van Buren County | All 23 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.