William Ogburn House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The William Ogburn House is a historic ruin located north of East Peru, Iowa, United States. This 1½-story limestone structure is an early example of a vernacular farm house, and the only known saltbox residence known to exist in Madison County.”
Wikipedia article William Ogburn House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1987 · 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. Ogburn, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1 1/2 mi. N of East Peru, East Peru, 50222
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Legacy in Stone: The Settlement Era of Madison County, Iowa TR
Township. Scott township
National Register reference number. 87001660 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of William Ogburn House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Peru Myers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Peru Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Peru, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Flood	East Peru	$100,000	Homes were beginning to flood.
June 2008	Flash Flood	East Peru	$10,000	Clanton creek south of East Peru was flooding roads 3 feet deep.
June 2009	Hail	East Peru	$10,000	no account filed
June 2008	Flash Flood	East Peru	$5,000	Flash flooding was reported at Clanton Creek.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	East Peru	$5,000	no account filed
April 2024	Tornado (EFU)	East Peru	-	Emergency management reported a brief tornado east of Highway 169 in rural Madison County. This tornado did not impact and damage indicators, hence the EFU rating.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	East Peru	-	This short-lived tornado damaged a few trees along its path.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	East Peru	-	Rainfall of 2.60 inches in the past 24 hours.
May 2014	Hail	East Peru	-	no account filed
July 2009	Funnel Cloud	East Peru	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
John S. and Elizabeth Beem Holmes Barn	2.8 miles	1987
Hogan and Martha A. Runkle Queen House	3.7 miles	1987
Nicholas Schoenenberger House and Barn	4.5 miles	1984
Holliwell Covered Bridge	5.3 miles	1976
Morgan Bridge	5.5 miles	1998
Henry and Elizabeth Adkinson Evans House	5.6 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001660 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 55 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.
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.