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Photograph of Roswell Spencer House
Photograph by Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Roswell Spencer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Roswell Spencer House is a historic property located in Pleasant Valley, Iowa, United States. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”

Wikipedia article Roswell Spencer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 296 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 1982 · 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. Spencer, Roswell, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Off U.S. 67, Pleasant Valley, 52767
  • When was it listed? April 1982
  • Category. building
  • Township. Pleasant Valley township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82002642 - 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Roswell Spencer House between 2008 and 2017, burning about 11 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTREE
3 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-111
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesH AVE AND E 49, IA

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Roswell Spencer House: 1 past producer, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Le Claire QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Forest Grove School No. 51.5 miles2013
East Hill House and Carraige House2.9 miles1999
Stone School3.2 miles1977
James Brown House3.3 miles1982
John H. Suiter House3.4 miles1979
James Gamble House4.3 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002642 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Scott CountyAll 296 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.