Wheaton Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“Wheaton Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot is a historic train station located at Wheaton, Barry County, Missouri. It was built in 1908 by the Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Wheaton station (Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Barry County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00000085- 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
30 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wheaton Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 502 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning
21
Arson/incendiarism
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Wheaton Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Depot: 6 past producers, 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wheaton, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 heavy rain.
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.
A hail swath from a mile to 3 miles wide began near Wheaton and continued to the northeast across Barry County. Hail from quarters to 3 inches in size fell along a path from Wheaton to Purdy to Pleasant Ridge as an intensifying left moving supercell moved to the northeast across the County. Along the storms path, numerous homes, vehicles, businesses, equipment, crops, livestock and other structures were damaged by hail before the storm passed into southeastern Lawrence County.
This is the continuation of the tornado that touched down and tracked from five miles southwest of Rocky Comfort in McDonald County to five miles northeast of Wheaton, Missouri in Barry County. A National Weather Service survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado that tracked a total of 12 miles from five miles southwest of Rocky Comfort to five miles northeast of Wheaton, Missouri. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 22 minutes along its total track with maximum wind speeds estimated at 110 mph. After tracking across northeastern McDonald County the tornado then caused substantial damage to a commercial farming operation as it moved into Barry County near the intersection of Highways 76 and 86. While multiple large barns were heavily damaged, the most striking damage at this location was the destruction of a two story home, though it appeared that the lower walls had collapsed as the second story remained largely intact. Wind speeds associated with the home were reduced due to the lack of damage to nearby trees and power lines. The tornado continued to cause mainly roof damage to a number of homes as it crossed through the southern section of Wheaton. Clusters of more intense and a cyclonic tree fall pattern involving hundreds of trees were noted east of Wheaton interspersed with sections of limited damage as the tornado tracked northeast along portions of Highway W, through rural areas along Shoal Creek. Tree damage continued across Farm Roads 1035, 1040, Highway HH, and 1045 before the last visible damage to trees was noted north of Farm Road 2095.
An NWS Survey concluded that an EF1 tornado with up to 85 mph winds began at the Body of Christ church on the southwest side of Wheaton. The tornado was confirmed by several eyewitnesses along with rotational debris pattern to structures and trees. The tornado pulled multiple sections of roofing off poultry barns northeast of Wheaton before damaging trees a half mile northeast then dissipated.
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.
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.
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