Unionville Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Unionville Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Unionville, Putnam County, Missouri. The district encompasses 61 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Unionville.”
Wikipedia article Unionville Square Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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 41 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly along portions of Main, Grant., 16th and 17th Sts., Unionville, 63565
When was it listed? July 2002
Category. district
Township. Union township
National Register reference number. 02000793 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Unionville Square Historic District: 8 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this property

46 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Unionville, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	$200,000	$200,000 in wind damage reported by FEMA from the North Central Missouri Electric Cooperative.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	$10,000	Damaged reported to some buildings.
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	$8,000	Roof blown off a 4H building.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	$3,000	Trees and power lines were reported down. Portion of a roof was blown onto 17th and Main Streets. Winds were estimated to 70 mph.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Unionville	$1,000	Brief tornado touchdown with minor damage to a barn.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	$1,000	Law enforcement reported windows blown out of a residence.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Social media photo of a large tree downed south of Unionville.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Estimated 60 mph wind gusts in Unionville with tree limbs downed and damage to a house.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Large tree branches downed across Unionville.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Several powerlines were down. There was roof damage and a roof was taken off a machine shed at HWY 129 and 190th Street in Unionville.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Emergency management reported powerlines down, along with other debris along Highway 5 near Lake Thunderhead.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Several trees and power lines were down in Unionville.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Unionville	-	After several hours of rain several roads and bridges were washed out. One such bridge was along HWY 192 north of HWY 136. Damage estimates are unknown.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	A Missouri Mesonet station near Unionville recorded a 79 mph wind gust with thunderstorms moving through the area.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Unionville dispatch relayed reports of 70 mph winds near Unionville.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	There was a 10 inch tree limb down in the city of Unionville. Power was out in the town.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	A tree was down on a house and multiple car ports were destroyed in Unionville from severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Unionville	-	Roads flooded in the town. Water was up to the back door of some homes.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Unionville	-	State Highway Y was closed due to flooding along Blackbird Creek.
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Unionville	-	Brief EF0 tornado touchdown in open country at 15:13 CST.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Unionville	-	Storm total rainfall was measured at 8.92 inches.
April 2007	Hail	Unionville	-	Near the intersection of HWY 136 and County Road EE.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Trees reported down.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Unionville	-	Route 129 closed 9 miles north of Highway 136.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed 4-inch diameter tree limbs.
August 1997	Hail	Unionville	-	Golfball -size hail was reported by Missouri State Troopers in Unionville.
May 2020	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
October 2004	Hail	Unionville	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Unionville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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 02000793 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Putnam County	All 1 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.
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.