Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
From the record
“The Allen House is a historic building located in Dyersville, Iowa, United States. Allen was a land speculator and developer who had this house built in 1857, which was the peak year for building in Dyersville.”
Wikipedia article Allen House (Dyersville, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 84 National Register listings published here for Dubuque County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75000686- 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
3 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Allen House
between 2006 and 2014, burning about 4 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
2
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Allen House: 14 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Dyersville, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Flash flooding along the The North Fork of the Maquoketa River caused extensive damage in Dyersville. Numerous businesses across town sustained major damage. The costliest damage occurred at Scale Models, which sustained an estimated $150,000 in damage. Other businesses reported flooding to depths of 7 feet in their basements. About 100 people were evacuated from 60 homes. State officials set the preliminary damage estimates from Dyersville at $3 to $5 million.
Heavy rains caused rapid rises in river levels along the North Fork Maquoketa River resulting in some flash flooding in Dyersville, IA around 2:00 pm June 8. Some Dyersville residences along the river were evacuated.
Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph caused some tree damage in Dyersville, IA around 540 am CDT July 11. A fishing boat and fence were also damaged and utility lines were downed.
Heavy rains of 3 to 8 inches caused flash flooding of western parts of Dyersville, IA during the late evening of May 25th and early morning of May 26th. The North Fork Maquoketa River and Bear Creek were particularly affected with flooding. Some streets in town had to be closed due to the flood waters as well as Floyd Road and 180th Street in rural areas.
Location is actually in Eastern Delaware County 4.2 miles northwest of Worthington. Spotters from the Dyersville Fire Department and in Worthington briefly glimpsed the Hopkinton Tornado as it roped out and dissipated on the horizon.
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
3 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.
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.
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