Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Samuel Van Sant House is an historic building located in Le Claire, Iowa, United States. The house was built in 1860 and it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.”
Wikipedia article Samuel Van Sant House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 296 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79003711- 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
13 since 2008
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Samuel Van Sant House
between 2008 and 2020, burning about 10 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
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Samuel Van Sant House: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Le Claire, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 2 tornado.
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.
A tornado touched down in northwest LeClaire, Iowa and was on the ground for 5 minutes carving a one half mile path to the Mississippi River. The tornado was on the ground about the length of Walnut Street in northern LeClaire, east to the Mississippi River across Highway 67. Numerous trees and power lines were downed. No injuries or fatalities occurred.
Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down several trees and large limbs in a 3 block area in Le Claire, IA at 540 am CDT June 9. Some of the trees and branches fell onto some homes.
Three to six inches of rain fell in a short amount of time during the early morning hours of July 4th in Le Claire, IA resulting in flash flooding. Silver Creek flooded out of its banks just before 4:30 AM and was flowing over Highway 67 near Cody Rd.
The Mississippi River at Le Claire Lock and Dam 14 rose above its major flood stage of 13.5 feet during the morning hours of April 25th and continued to rise to its crest of 16.12 on the evening of April 30th.
The Mississippi River at LeClaire began June above its major flood of 13.5 feet and crested at 15.08 feet on June 1st around 9 PM. This is preliminarily the 5th highest crest on record. It feel back below major flood around 5 AM on June 10th.|The Mississippi River at Rock Island began the month above its major flood of 18 feet and crested at 21.68 feet around 7 PM on June 1st. This is preliminarily the 6th highest rest on record.
The Mississippi River remained above its major flood stage of 18 feet through the month of April. The river crested at 20.68 feet on April 8th. Preliminarily this would be the 10th highest crest of record.
River levels continued to run high during the month of April. Heavy rain across the area caused the Mississippi River at Le Claire Lock and Dam 14 to rise above its major flood stage of 13.5 feet late in the day on the 26th, and it remained above its major flood stage into May. This second rise did not cause a crest before the end of the month.
The river rose above flood stage at Le Claire LD14 on October 3 at 300 pm cst and fell below flood stage on October 9 at 300 pm cst. Minor flooding occurred with the crest reaching 11.82 feet on October 6 at 7 am cst. Flood stage is 11 feet.
Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph damaged buildings, blew a a barn across Territorial Road, and also blew the roof off another barn. Reported by amateur radio operator.
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.
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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