Farm No. 1, Iowa Men's Reformatory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Farm No. 1, Iowa Men's Reformatory, also known as the West Farm, is located west of Anamosa, Iowa, United States. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Farm No. 1, Iowa Men's Reformatory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Jones County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Co. Trunk Hwy. E28 W of Buffalo Cr., Ahnamosa, 52205
When was it listed? December 1992
Category. district
Also known as. Municipal, County and State Corrections Properties MPS
Township. Fairview township
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 92001664 - 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

21 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Farm No. 1, Iowa Men's Reformatory between 2007 and 2014, burning about 108 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	20
Smoking	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
5 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Farm No. 1, Iowa Men's Reformatory: 12 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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	Recorded
Anamosa Mines	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Sphalerite
James Brown Mine	Lead	Past Producer
Dearborn Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Penitentiary Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Weber Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Weber Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vernon-Anamosa Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weber Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Anamosa Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jones 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
Rick's Brewery	0.3 miles	1999
Iowa Men's Reformatory Cemetery	0.4 miles	1992
Iowa Men's Reformatory Historic District	0.6 miles	1992
Jones County Court House	0.6 miles	2003
Edmund and Mary Ann Walworth Booth House	0.9 miles	2013
Anamosa Public Library	0.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001664 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jones County	All 27 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.