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William Waterfield House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The William Waterfield House, also known as the Waterfield Octagon House, is a historic building located in Raymond, Iowa, United States. Built in 1867, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1978.”

Wikipedia article William Waterfield House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Black Hawk County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Waterfield, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 308 3rd St., S., Raymond, 50667
  • When was it listed? October 1978
  • Category. building
  • Township. Poyner township
  • National Register reference number. 78001206 - 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

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of William Waterfield House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2020Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 November 2001Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 November 2001Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 October 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 October 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 October 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Black Hawk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of William Waterfield House: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pint's QuarryFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, IronPast ProducerBarite, Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Morgan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pints QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raymond MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Raymond QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hawkeye Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Black Hawk County

Storms near this property

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymond, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010LightningRaymond$10,000no account filed
May 2004HailRaymond$1,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRaymond-A 60 mph gust at a personal weather station.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRaymond-Wind gust measured by personal weather station.
July 2020Heavy RainRaymond-Public report of 2.26 inches of rain. Begin time estimated via radar.
July 2010Heavy RainRaymond-Rainfall of 7.5 inches measured from 4 different rain gages.
June 2013HailRaymond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Black Hawk 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001206 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Black Hawk CountyAll 51 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.