Abner Martin House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Abner Martin House, also known as The Pat Murphy Place, is a historic residence located south of Mount Zion, Iowa, United States. Abner Martin was a farmer and an early settler in Van Buren County.”
Wikipedia article Abner Martin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 1984 · 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. Martin, Abner, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. S of Mount Zion off IA 1, Mount Zion, 52565
When was it listed? April 1984
Category. building
Township. Van Buren township
National Register reference number. 84001604 - 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Abner Martin House between 2008 and 2017, burning about 160 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	1
Smoking	1

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
11 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 February 2017	Smoking	150 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Abner Martin House: 3 past producers. None of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Downing Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Miller Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Old County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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
Midway Stock Farm Barn	1.3 miles	1999
Kilbourn Bridge	2.5 miles	1998
Des Moines River Locks No. 5 and No. 7	3.8 miles	1977
Franklin Pearson House	4.0 miles	1978
Van Buren County Courthouse	4.0 miles	1977
Voltaire Twombley Building	4.1 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001604 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Buren County	All 23 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.