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Hodgson-Aid Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Hodgson-Aid Mill, also known as Hodgson Water Mill and Aid-Hodgson Mill, is a historic grist mill located on Bryant Creek near Sycamore, Ozark County, Missouri. It was constructed around 1897, and is a timber frame mill building covered with red-painted weatherboards.”

Wikipedia article Hodgson-Aid Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Ozark County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. MO 181, Sycamore, 65637
  • When was it listed? February 2002
  • Category. building
  • Township. Richland township
  • National Register reference number. 02000015 - 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Hodgson-Aid Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,749 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230713-07726-09172020-1550
17 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 August 1995Natural7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 August 1999Natural2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hodgson-Aid Mill: 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Collins LandIronPast Producer
John SkilesIronProspect1953
South Missouri Land Co Number OneIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ozark County

Storms near this property

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sycamore, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 23 flood, 6 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2019Thunderstorm WindSycamore$28,000A barn and several outbuildings suffered minor to moderate damage.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindSycamore$15,000A barn suffered moderate damage.
April 2025Flash FloodSycamore-Missouri Route 181 at Bryant Creek was flooded and impassable.
April 2025FloodSycamore-Missouri Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was closed due to flooding.
June 2024FloodSycamore-State Highway 181 was closed due to flooding of Bryant Creek.
April 2024FloodSycamore-State Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was closed due to flooding.
June 2024Flash FloodSycamore-State Highway 181 was closed due to flooding of Bryant Creek.
August 2024FloodSycamore-MO 181 was closed at Bryant Creek due to flooding.
July 2024FloodSycamore-The low water crossing at Highway 181 and Bryant Creek was reported to be closed due to flooding.
December 2024FloodSycamore-Highway 181 was closed due to flooding at Bryant Creek.
February 2023FloodSycamore-Highway 181 was closed at the Bryant Creek low water crossing due to flooding.
March 2023FloodSycamore-Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was closed due to flooding.
March 2023FloodSycamore-Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was flooded and impassable.
April 2022FloodSycamore-Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was flooded and impassable.
March 2022FloodSycamore-Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was flooded and impassable.
January 2021Flash FloodSycamore-Heavy rainfall caused Bryant Creek to flood making Missouri Route 181 impassable.
May 2021FloodSycamore-Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was flooded and impassable.
March 2021FloodSycamore-The low water crossing on Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was closed due to flooding.
December 2021FloodSycamore-Highway 181 at Bryant Creek was flooded and impassable.
March 2020FloodSycamore-State Highway 181 was closed due to flooding at Bryant Creek.
March 2020FloodSycamore-State Highway 181 was closed at Bryant Creek due to flooding.
May 2020FloodSycamore-Highway 181 was closed due to flooding at the Bryant Creek low water crossing.
May 2020Flash FloodSycamore-Highway 181 was closed due to flooding over the Bryant Creek low water crossing.
October 2020FloodSycamore-State Highway 181 was closed at Bryant Creek due to flooding.
October 2019FloodSycamore-Missouri Route 181 was closed in both directions just south of County Road 176 due to flooding.
February 2018FloodSycamore-State Highway 181 was closed due to flooding along Bryant Creek.
April 2017FloodSycamore-State Higway 181 was closed near Bryant Creek due to flooding.
November 2015FloodSycamore-Highway 181 was closed due to flooding.
March 2012FloodSycamore-Highway 181 on Bryant Creek was flooded and closed.
April 2011Flash FloodSycamore-Highway 181 was closed due to flooding.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSycamore-no account filed
May 1998HailSycamore-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodSycamore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozark 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000015 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ozark CountyAll 2 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.