BlockFrom the record
One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2003 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Orrville Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The listing
- Address. 526 amd 538 Eatherton Rd., Wildwood, 63005
- When was it listed? October 2003
- Category. district
- Township. Chesterfield township
- National Register reference number. 03001053 - 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
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Orrville Historic District between 2011 and 2016, burning about 4 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/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 143232-09222-12312016-1455 |
| 5 January 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Orrville Historic District: 11 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Etherington Clay Bank | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Hamburg Squarry | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Brown Bank | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| King Land | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Babler State Park Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Old Glenco Lime Company Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wildwood, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball-Essen Farmstead Historic District | 1.0 miles | 2001 | |
 | Dr. Edmund A. Babler Memorial State Park Historic District | 2.0 miles | 1985 |
 | Big Chief Restaurant | 3.9 miles | 2003 |
 | Pond School | 4.0 miles | 2012 |
 | Farmers State Bank of Chesterfield | 4.7 miles | 1999 |
 | Burkhardt Historic District | 4.7 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03001053 in Record Group 79. |
| St. Louis County | All 663 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.