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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ruth Suckow House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Suckow, Ruth, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. S. Radcliffe and 5th St., Earlville, 52041
- When was it listed? December 1977
- Category. building
- Township. Oneida township
- National Register reference number. 77000507 - 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
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ruth Suckow House between 2007 and 2014, burning about 51 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 | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1551 197TH ST., IA |
| 28 October 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 October 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ruth Suckow House: 9 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Goedkin Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Schulte Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| White Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earlville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | $100,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 75 mph blew some trees down, blew some windows in, and caused some roof damage in Earlville, IA around 815 am June 19. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew a tree down near the intersection of Stow Street and Prospect Street in Earlville, IA around 240 pm July 24. In addition, a tree fell onto the Orcutt residence. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Earlville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | - | Roof blown off a house. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | - | Emergency manager reported 5 power poles down along county Highway X47 southeast of Earlville. There was also damage to crops in the same area along with several branches down. Winds were estimated at 70 mph. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | - | A trained spotter reported a barn roof blown off about 7 miles southeast of Earlville. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Earlville | - | Hail the size of a quarter fell in Earlville, IA around 236 pm July 24. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Earlville | - | Quarter-sized hail fell for five minutes covering the ground in Earlville, IA around 245 pm July 24. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Earlville | - | One inch hail was measured in Earlville. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Earlville | - | Spotter measured hail the size of nickels in Earlville. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Earlville | - | A spotter reported hail the size of nickels 1W Earlville. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Earlville | - | Nickel sized hail reported by trained storm spotter. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Earlville | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Saints Peter and Paul Church | 5.8 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 77000507 in Record Group 79. |
| Delaware County | All 14 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.