Greenwood Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Greenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery established in 1874, and located at 6571 St. This was the first non-denominational commercial cemetery for African-Americans in the St.”
Wikipedia article Greenwood Cemetery (Hillsdale, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2004 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 6571 St. Louis Ave., Hillsdale, 63121
When was it listed? February 2004
Category. site
Township. University township
National Register reference number. 04000090 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood Cemetery between 2006 and 2014, burning about 1 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	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
18 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Greenwood Cemetery: 38 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Perlite. 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
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
St Louis Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Evans and Howard Mine Number Five	Clay	Past Producer
Highlands Mine Number Four	Clay	Past Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 4	Clay	Past Producer
Mine Number 7	Clay	Past Producer
Prospect Hill Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Unknown - Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No 7	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No.6	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pine Lawn Carriage House	0.5 miles	1984
Glen Echo Historic District	0.8 miles	2007
Wellston Station	1.0 miles	2007
St. Vincent's Hospital	1.0 miles	1982
Wellston Loop Commercial Historic District	1.1 miles	2010
Wellston J.C. Penney Building	1.1 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000090 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.