Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“Maries County Jail and Sheriff's House, also known as the Old Jail Museum, is a historic jail and sheriff's residence located in Vienna, Maries County, Missouri. It was built between 1856 and 1858, and is a two-story rectangular building, constructed of rough-cut native limestone ashlar blocks.”
Wikipedia article Maries County Jail and Sheriff's House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 1 National Register listings published here for Maries County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02000101- 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
28 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Maries County Jail and Sheriff's House
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 206 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning
20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Natural
1
Equipment and vehicle use
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 Maries County Jail and Sheriff's House: 7 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Vienna, the town this property stands in, in 66 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 29 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 14 flash flood, 4 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.
Several homes and roads sustained flood damage across the county. This report will contain the total dollar estimate for flood damage to infrastructure, businesses, and homes across Maries County.
This storm report will include the total estimated damages and cost for the flooding event. Numerous roads were under water and impassable throughout the county. One resident was evacuated from their home on County Road 213 on the northwest side of town. Several high water rescues were performed. Several homes were flooded and low water crossings damaged.
Several low water crossing and rural roads were flooded and impassable.||The total cost estimate for flooding damages for Maries County for this entire episode has been included. This includes roads, bridges, and structures which were affected.
Strong winds caused a barn to collapse along County Road AA at the north side of Vienna. The barn trapped six head of cattle but all were rescued without injury. Wind also pushed over and uprooted several large trees, as well as power lines.
Flash flooding occurred in Maries County with water over the roadway on Highway 42 west of Vienna. There were multiple county roads across the county that were flooded and impassable.
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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