Richard L. and Verda M. Alleman Farm Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Alleman Farm Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located southeast of Slater in rural Polk County, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.”
Wikipedia article Richard L. and Verda M. Alleman Farm Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 208 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Alleman, Richard L. and Verda M., Farm Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2701 NW. 158th Ave., Slater, 50244
When was it listed? May 2015
Category. district
Township. Lincoln township
National Register reference number. 15000192 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Richard L. and Verda M. Alleman Farm Historic District between 2006 and 2018, burning about 23 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	5
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
17 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	CHRISTENSEN FOREST PRESERVE, HUXLEY, IA
29 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	951 500TH AVE, IA
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 January 2014	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Polk 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Big Creek Schoolhouse	6.4 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000192 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Polk County	All 208 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.