Camp Harlan-Camp McKean Historic District

Built in 1854. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Camp Harlan-Camp McKean Historic District, also known as the Hugh B. and Mary H. Swan Farmstead and the Springdale Stock Farm, is a nationally recognized historic district located northwest of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States.”
Wikipedia article Camp Harlan-Camp McKean Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 2013 · category: District · built in 1854.

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

The listing

Listed as. Camp Harlan--Camp McKean Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2260 Hickory Ave., Mount Pleasant, 52641
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. district
Township. Center township
When was it built? 1854
National Register reference number. 12001117 - 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Camp Harlan-Camp McKean Historic District between 2013 and 2017, burning about 11 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	2

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
18 February 2017	Debris and open burning	10 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Camp Harlan-Camp McKean Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Rome Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Henry County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Smith Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working 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
Second Baptist Church	1.2 miles	2014
Dr. J. O. and Catherine Ball House	1.3 miles	1994
Henry Ambler House	1.4 miles	1986
Zuhn Building	1.5 miles	1991
Masters Building	1.5 miles	1991
City Hall	1.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001117 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.