Des Moines River Locks No. 5 and No. 7

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Des Moines River Locks No. 5 and No. 7, also known as the Bonaparte and Keosauqua Locks, comprise a discontinuous historic site located along the Des Moines River in Van Buren County, Iowa, United States. Lock No. 5 is located in a riverfront park in Bonaparte, and lock No. 7 is located near Keosauqua.”
Wikipedia article Des Moines River Locks No. 5 and No. 7, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 1977 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. At Des Moines River, Bonaparte and Keosauqua, 52565
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. structure
Township. Van Buren township
National Register reference number. 77000561 - 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Des Moines River Locks No. 5 and No. 7 in 2014, burning about 200 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	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
30 March 2014	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Des Moines River Locks No. 5 and No. 7: 5 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
Anderson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Downing Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Old County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Sargent Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Van Buren County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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
Voltaire Twombley Building	0.4 miles	1993
Van Buren County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1977
Hotel Manning	0.4 miles	1973
Franklin Pearson House	0.7 miles	1978
Lacey-Keosauqua State Park, Picnic and Custodial Group (Area B)	1.5 miles	1990
Lacey-Keosauqua State Park, Bathing Area (Area C)	1.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000561 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Buren County	All 23 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.