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Opera Hall Block

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Opera Hall Block, also known as the Farmers State Bank and Citizens National Bank Building, is a historic opera house and commercial block located at King City, Gentry County, Missouri. It was built in 1895, and is a rectangular, Romanesque Revival style brick building.”

Wikipedia article Opera Hall Block (King City, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Gentry 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 101-03 W. Vermont/101-03 S. Connecticut, King City, 64463
  • When was it listed? May 2002
  • Category. building
  • Township. Jackson township
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02000472 - 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Opera Hall Block in 2005, burning about 700 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresMissouri Department of ConservationKING CITY

Every fire recorded in Gentry County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Opera Hall Block: 14 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Maynes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Gentry County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names King City, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKing City$4,000Several power poles were blown over in King city. A truck was also overturned. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindKing City$4,000Severe thunderstorms moved through the county, producing wind gusts up to 60 mph in the King City area. Numerous power outages were reported.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindKing City$2,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKing City$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. Minor damage was reported at the Willcross Seed building in King City.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKing City$1,000Power lines were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindKing City$1,000Trees and power lines downed.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindKing City$1,000Power lines downed.
July 2020Flash FloodKing City-Highway 169 just south of King City was closed due to water over the road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKing City-Parts of trees and pole barns strewn along Highway 48 west of King City.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindKing City-Power lines downed.
March 2012HailKing City-no account filed
May 2011HailKing City-no account filed
March 2011HailKing City-no account filed
June 2009HailKing City-no account filed
June 2009HailKing City-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindKing City-no account filed
May 2004HailKing City-no account filed
April 2003HailKing City-no account filed
April 2003HailKing City-no account filed
June 2001HailKing City-no account filed
May 1996HailKing City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gentry 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 02000472 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gentry CountyAll 4 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.