P. P. Raymond House

Built in 1874 (Second Empire style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Raymond House is a historic building located in Malcom, Iowa, United States. Raymond farmed outside of town from the time he arrived in Poweshiek County in 1856 until he moved into this house in 1874.”
Wikipedia article P. P. Raymond House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Poweshiek County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1874, Second Empire style.

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. Raymond, P. P., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4th St., Malcom, 50157
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
Township. Malcom township
When was it built? 1874
Architectural style. Second Empire style
National Register reference number. 85000873 - 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

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of P. P. Raymond House between 2007 and 2020, burning about 122 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	6
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	MALCOM
9 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 March 2014	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Poweshiek 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 P. P. Raymond House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Malcolm Stone Co. Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Poweshiek County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malcom, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Malcom	$50,000	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Malcom	$5,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Poweshiek 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

3 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
Brooklyn Hotel	5.8 miles	1979
William Manatt House	5.9 miles	1997
Brooklyn Opera House-Broadway Theatre	5.9 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000873 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Poweshiek County	All 26 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.