Built in 1897 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“House, also known as Immaculate Conception Convent, is a historic building located in Dunlap, Iowa, United States. Wheeler Sr. for his son and his new wife.”
Wikipedia article John R. Wheeler Jr. House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harrison County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1897, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.86003171- 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
4 since 2013
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of John R. Wheeler Jr. House
between 2013 and 2020, burning about 94 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
4
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
4 workings within 5 miles of John R. Wheeler Jr. House: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dunlap, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood.
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.
Thiere was for flooding along the Boyer River. The river gauge at Logan, operated by the USGS, peaked at 25.33 feet at 7 pm on March 13th. Major flood stage is 25 feet. Preliminary information shows this peak is the highest on record. Portions of the town of Missouri Valley flooded from the flood. Highway 30 closed in Woodbine. A levee topped by floodwaters at 296th street in Missouri Valley, on the east side of the levee around 2 miles northeast of town. Also 2 breaches in the levee around Willow Creek. Evacuations took place in Missouri Valley. Property damage totals are for the entire county from flooding of the Boyer River, Willow Creek, and Missouri River.
Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches across much of Harrison county caused the Boyer river to flood. The flood waters crossed Highway 30 northeast of Logan and in the Woodbine area causing its closure between Logan and Denison. Seven or eight homes in east Logan were flooded, along with a business, the school's athletic field and railroad tracks. Many county roads and agricultural lowlands were also flooded.||The Boyer River at Logan crested at 24.8 feet around noon CDT on June 8, flood stage is 19 feet. The river at Logan was above flood stage from around 545 am on June 8 until 715 am on June 9.
Rainfall of 5 to 8 inches fell over much of Harrison county over the weekend of May 4th through the 6th. Logan reported nearly 8 inches from this event. The heavy rain caused the Boyer River to flood on May 6th. The Boyer River at Logan reached a crest just above 21 feet around 115 pm cdt May 6th, flood stage is 19 feet. The river at Logan was above flood stage from 1000 am until around 6 pm on May 6th.
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.
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.
Block