LONESTAR

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Lone Star is a wooden hull, steam-powered stern-wheeled towboat in LeClaire, Iowa, United States. She is dry docked and on display at the Buffalo Bill Museum in LeClaire.”
Wikipedia article Lone Star (towboat), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 296 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Buffalo Bill Museum, LeClaire, 61275
When was it listed? December 1989
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 89002461 - 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

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of LONESTAR between 2008 and 2020, burning about 10 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
14 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-119 BURN PILE/DITCH
4 July 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	TREE
3 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-111
6 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-090
1 May 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	WHITETAIL DRIVE
12 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-043
18 February 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-027
18 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-028

Every fire recorded in Scott 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 LONESTAR: 2 past producers, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cordova Quarry Butler Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cordova Quarrycollision Stone Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Le Claire Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
George Tromley Sr. House	0.8 miles	1979
Stone House	0.8 miles	1983
Old Mill House	0.9 miles	1979
Rambo House	0.9 miles	1979
Cody Road Historic District	0.9 miles	1979
Samuel Van Sant House	0.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002461 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Scott County	All 296 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.