Bible Grove Consolidated District #5 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Bible Grove Consolidated District #5 School, also known as Bible Grove School, is a historic school building south of Route T. at Bible Grove, Scotland County, Missouri. It was built in 1921, and is a two-story rectangular brick building with a full basement.”
Wikipedia article Bible Grove School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Scotland County · listed in 2000 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. South side of Rte T. at Bible Grove, Bible Grove, 63531
When was it listed? May 2000
Category. building
Township. Mount Pleasant township
National Register reference number. 00000441 - 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bible Grove Consolidated District #5 School between 2002 and 2020, burning about 206 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2

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 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	190455-09822-09052019-0400
23 March 2002	Debris and open burning	180 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 March 2002	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 October 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	230917-05205-10122020-1535

Every fire recorded in Scotland 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 Bible Grove Consolidated District #5 School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Greensburg Quarry - Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Scotland County

Storms near this property

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bible Grove, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bible Grove	$40,000	Trees down
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bible Grove	$1,000	telephone poles down at residence
August 2023	Flash Flood	Bible Grove	-	Law Enforcement report that Route T near Bible Grove was washed out.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bible Grove	-	The Sheriff's Office reported that several trees were down on roadways in Bible Grove.
May 2019	Hail	Bible Grove	-	The hail was spiked.
June 2015	Hail	Bible Grove	-	Quarter size hail was reported along with a report of nearby creek out of its banks.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Bible Grove	-	Three roads was reported closed northeast of Bible Grove, including County D, County Road MM, and the Canal Bridge.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bible Grove	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some 2 to 3 inch diameter tree branches about 5 miles south of Crawford, MO around 825 pm June 5.
May 2009	Hail	Bible Grove	-	Hail the size of a quarter fell about 10 miles southwest of Memphis, MO around 630 pm on May 13. It lasted for 3 to 4 minutes. Time estimated.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bible Grove	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some tree branches about 3 miles northeast of Bible Grove, MO around 715 pm June 23. The branches fell onto some power lines and caught on fire.
April 2016	Hail	Bible Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scotland 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000441 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Scotland County	All 3 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.