Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
From the record
“Milton Turner School, originally Meacham Park School, is a historic former school building in the Meacham Park neighborhood of Kirkwood, Missouri outside St. It served African American students during segregation and was named for James Milton Turner.”
Wikipedia article J. Milton Turner School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.02000905- 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 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of J. Milton Turner School
in 2007, burning under an acre 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/undetermined
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
27 workings within 5 miles of J. Milton Turner School: 26 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Kirkwood, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A local high school teacher and coach was severely injured by a downed tree while he was jogging with his dog near his home on North Woodlawn Avenue. The man suffered a punctured lung, broken ribs, a broken shoulder and other injuries.
The tornado touched down approximately 0.3 of a mile north of Dougherty Ferry Road near Lynkirk Rd. and moved north northwest through part of a subdivision. The tornado lifted briefly, then touched down again near the intersection of Ballas Rd. and Kirk Place Dr. before lifting and disspating just east of West County Mall. The path was approximately six tenths of a mile long and a maximum width around 300 yards across part of the subdivision and an average width of less than 200 yards elsewhere. Widespread tree damage and minor roof damage was observed across the subdivision but the overall lack of structural damage suggests winds did not exceed 70 to 80 mph. In the subdivision, several large healthy trees were uprooted and some roofs had missing or damaged shingles. At least one healthy tree was snapped several feet above its base. More extensive tree damage was observed with the second touchdown near Ballas Rd. and Kirk Place Dr. where several healthy pine trees were snapped at the midpoint and the debris pattern indicated a convergent circulation. Tree damage in this area also downed several powerlines along Ballas Road.
A severe thunderstorm moved across southern St. Louis county producing damaging downburst winds (including microbursts) over this region. Some of the hardest hit areas extended from just east of downtown Kirkwood through Oakland then into Shrewsbury. Some of the fallen trees and numerous large tree limbs damaged homes and vehicles over this area. One large tree fell onto an apartment building causing moderate damage. Surface winds were estimated between 65 and 75 mph. No injuries were reported.
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.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
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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