Hugh and Matilda Boyle House and Cemetery Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Hugh and Matilda Boyle House and Cemetery Historic District, also known as Boyleston Cemetery, is a nationally recognized historic district located west of Lowell, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.”
Wikipedia article Hugh and Matilda Boyle House and Cemetery Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Boyle, Hugh and Matilda, House and Cemetery Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3225 Lexington Ave., Lowell, 52641
When was it listed? October 2015
Category. district
Township. Jackson township
National Register reference number. 15000747 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hugh and Matilda Boyle House and Cemetery Historic District between 2012 and 2018, burning about 31 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 March 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 February 2017	Debris and open burning	15 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 Hugh and Matilda Boyle House and Cemetery Historic District: 2 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
Beattie Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Nelson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this property

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowell, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2020	Hail	Lowell	-	Hail ranged from dime to golf ball sized.
February 2017	Hail	Lowell	-	A public report of 1.5 inch diameter hail was received through social media.
June 2012	Hail	Lowell	-	Quarter sized hail fell 5 miles west northwest of Lowell, IA at 242 pm CDT June 16.
June 2008	Hail	Lowell	-	Quarter-sized hail fell in Lowell, IA at 6:29 pm June 12. Winds between 30 and 40 mph and heavy rain was also observed.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Lowell	-	Water ponded 6 to 8 inches deep on roads in some spots.

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
Owen A. and Emma J. Garretson House	2.6 miles	2015
Holtkamp Round Barn	3.6 miles	1986
Joseph A. and Lydia A. Edwards House	3.8 miles	2015
Fish Creek Bridge	4.1 miles	1998
Lamm-Pollmiller Farmstead District	5.4 miles	2010
Geode State Park, Civilian Conservation Corps Area	6.2 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000747 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.