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One of 6 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Rendleman Orchards
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 9680 State Route 127, Alto Pass, 62905
- When was it listed? September 2025
- Category. district
- Precinct. Alto Pass precinct
- National Register reference number. 100012200 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Rendleman Orchards between 1996 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | WOLF DEN |
| 21 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | RATTLE |
| 2 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | HICKAM ROAD |
| 18 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | POWERLINE |
| 24 May 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | UPPER HUTCHINS CREEK |
| 6 April 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | OWL HOLLOW |
| 3 April 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.3 acres | Shawnee National Forest | ALTO WATERWORKS |
| 27 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Shawnee National Forest | HARD TIMES 2 |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Rendleman Orchards: 5 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N.Cobden Sandstone Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Prospect | ||
| Shawnee Special Use Silica Deposit 1 | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Springvale Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Alto Pass Lead Prospect No. 1 | Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Alto Pass Lead Prospect No. 1 | Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Alto Pass Lead Prospect No. 2 | Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Alto Pass Lead Prospect No. 2 | Lead, Zinc | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alto Pass, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alto Pass | $200,000 | At least 15 trees, some of which were very large, were blown down. About ten houses were damaged by falling trees. Some of these houses sustained major damage. There were also vehicles damaged by falling trees. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alto Pass | $40,000 | A large tree limb was down just north of Alto Pass. A tree was blown onto a police car just east of Anna. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alto Pass | $4,000 | A tree that was snapped at the base fell onto a garage. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alto Pass | $4,000 | Several trees were blown down on the northwest side of the county, including locations near Highway 127 and Old U.S. 51. These locations are just south of the Jackson County line. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alto Pass | - | Trees were down on Route 127 about two miles north of Route 146. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alto Pass | - | A couple of trees were blown down on major roads in northern Union County, including Route 3 near Wolf Lake and Highway 127 at Alto Pass. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Alto Pass | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Alto Pass | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Alto Pass | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Union Lookout | 7.8 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012200 in Record Group 79. |
| Union County | All 6 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.