Matthew Edel Blacksmith Shop and House

Built in 1880 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Matthew Edel Blacksmith Shop and House are historic buildings located in Haverhill, Iowa, United States. The complex includes the blacksmith shop from the early 1880s, a garage addition from 1915, a house from the early 1890s, and a summer kitchen.”
Wikipedia article Matthew Edel Blacksmith Shop and House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1880, Victorian architecture.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Edel, Matthew, Blacksmith Shop and House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1st St. and 3rd Ave., Haverhill, 50120
When was it listed? March 1983
Category. building
Township. Jefferson township
When was it built? 1880
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 83000391 - 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

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Matthew Edel Blacksmith Shop and House between 2009 and 2018, burning about 75 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7

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
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2919 LAFAYETTE AVE, MELBOURNE, IA
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2081 265TH ST., MELBOURNE, IA
10 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2534 STARRY GROVE ROAD, MARSHALLTOWN, IA 50158, IO
5 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	2417 MARSH AVE, IA

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Matthew Edel Blacksmith Shop and House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haverhill, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2013	Flash Flood	Haverhill	$100,000	Marshall County Sheriff reports that Highway 14 remained closed due to flooding north of Marshalltown. Highway 330 south of Albion is also closed.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$50,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$5,000	Sustained winds of 65 MPH measured with an anemometer. Penny size hail also reported.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Haverhill	$3,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Haverhill	$1,000	no account filed
March 2022	Hail	Haverhill	-	Social media picture of quarter sized hail.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Haverhill	-	Public reported storm total heavy rainfall of 2.90 inches.
October 1998	Hail	Haverhill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Robert H. Sunday House	5.9 miles	1988
C. H. Whitehead House	7.5 miles	1979
Leroy R. Willard House	7.5 miles	1976
Marshall County Courthouse	7.6 miles	1972
Marshalltown Downtown Historic District	7.6 miles	2002
Glick-Sower House	7.7 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000391 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall County	All 18 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.