Built in 1902 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Sturdivant-Sawyer House is a historic residence located in Centerville, Iowa, United States. Drake, a former Governor of Iowa and founder of Drake University in Des Moines, as a wedding gift for his daughter Mary Drake Sturdivant.”
Wikipedia article Sturdivant-Sawyer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Appanoose County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1902, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.84001202- 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
10 since 2011
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sturdivant-Sawyer House
between 2011 and 2019, burning about 74 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
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
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
16 workings within 5 miles of Sturdivant-Sawyer House: 12 past producers, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Zinc, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Centerville, the town this property stands in, in 83 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 27 heavy rain, 24 hail, 23 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Trained spotter reported numerous branches upwards of 6 inches in diameter down as well as a tree approximately 3 feet in diameter down. Time radar estimated.
Law enforcement reported golf ball sized hail fell for several minutes before becoming smaller in size. A severe weather spotter reported small branches snapped at the same time as the hail.
Trained spotter reported jagged very large hail that was potentially 3-4 inches in diameter. Numerous leaves stripped off trees and small branches down due to the hail.
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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