Lee Shay Farmhouse

Built in 1920. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Lee Shay Farmhouse, also known as the Lee Shay Farmstead, is a historic residence located in rural Ringgold County, Iowa, United States near the town of Maloy. Joseph Leo Shay (1882-1961) and Teresa Cecelia Eason Shay (1890-1975) were married in 1911 and moved to this farm the following year.”
Wikipedia article Lee Shay Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Ringgold County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1920.

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. Shay, Lee, Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off CR P27, Maloy, 50835
When was it listed? November 1986
Category. building
Township. Benton township
When was it built? 1920
National Register reference number. 86003172 - 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lee Shay Farmhouse between 2009 and 2011, burning about 101 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	2

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
17 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	S END OF DNR MARSH BY BENTON, IA
10 February 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Ringgold 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 Lee Shay Farmhouse: 1 past producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ringgold County

Storms near this property

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maloy, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Maloy	$25,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Maloy	$20,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Maloy	$2,000	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Maloy	-	Personal weather station measured 58 mph wind gust.
June 2021	Heavy Rain	Maloy	-	A CWOP station reported 3.01 inches of rain in 2 hours.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Maloy	-	Emergency manager received report of heavy rainfall of 4.6 inches storm total. Exact end time of report unknown.

Every storm recorded in Ringgold 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
Middlefork Methodist Episcopal Church	7.1 miles	1990
Ringgold County Courthouse	7.6 miles	1981
Ringgold County Jail	7.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ringgold County	All 6 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.