Sharon Cemetery Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Sharon Cemetery Historic District is located in rural Harrison Township, Lee County, Iowa, United States near the town of Farmington. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article Sharon Cemetery Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Co. Rd. J40 about 3 mi. E of Van Buren Co. line, Farmington, 52626
When was it listed? January 1991
Category. district
Township. Harrison township
Architect. Ossian Cole Simonds
National Register reference number. 90002133 - 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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sharon Cemetery Historic District between 2008 and 2014, burning about 27 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	4
Debris and open burning	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
19 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	1672 150TH AVE, NW OF DONNELLSON, IOWA
17 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2014	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Primrose Mill	3.7 miles	1983
John McGreer Barn and Crib	4.7 miles	2001
Donnellson Depot	7.7 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90002133 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee County	All 48 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.