C.F. and Mary Singmaster House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The C.F. and Mary Singmaster House, also known as Maplehurst Ranch, or more simply Maplehurst, is located near Keota, Iowa, United States. Singmaster, a Pennsylvania native, moved to Keokuk County with his parents in 1843 and settled near Talleyrand, south of Keota.”
Wikipedia article C.F. and Mary Singmaster House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Keokuk County · listed in 1998 · 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. Singmaster, C.F. and Mary, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 32263 190th St., Keota, 52248
When was it listed? January 1998
Category. building
Township. Lafayette township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 97001608 - 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

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of C.F. and Mary Singmaster House between 2009 and 2014, burning about 40 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	5
Debris and open burning	3

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 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	29271 170TH STREET, IOWA SOUTH ENGLISH, IOWA
18 April 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2014	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 April 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	IN NE PART OF CEMETARY, KEOTA, IA
17 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 November 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Keokuk 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 C.F. and Mary Singmaster House: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Tradewater Shale Exposure	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Keokuk County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keota, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2006	Tornado (F1)	Keota	$25,000	landspout; rated F1 with winds estimated around 90 mph
June 2008	Flash Flood	Keota	$5,000	Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding in Keota, IA during the early morning hours of June 27. Some homes in Keota reported flooded basements.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	-	A public report of a 70 MPH wind gust measured in town. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	-	A report of 1 to 2 inch diameter tree branches down reported on Twitter.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be 70 mph about 5 miles east of Harper, IA around 437 pm June 19.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 to 70 mph were observed in Keota, IA at 305 am August 5.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down seven large trees up to 3 feet in diameter in Keota, IA at 305 am August 5.
June 2002	Tornado (F0)	Keota	-	A brief tornado touched down northwest of Keota. The tornado dissipated at 190th Street and County Road G32. No reports of damage or injuries were received.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Keota	-	Numerous trees down.
March 2023	Hail	Keota	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Keokuk 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church	5.4 miles	1986
	Theodore White House	7.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001608 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keokuk County	All 10 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.