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Lock and Dam No. 22 Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“Lock and Dam No. 22 is a lock and dam located near Saverton, Missouri, on the Upper Mississippi River around river mile 301.2. The movable portion of the dam is 1,224 feet (373.1 m) long and consists of three roller gates and ten tainter gates.”
Wikipedia article Lock and Dam No. 22, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Ralls County · listed in 2004 · category: District.
National Register reference number.04000182- 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
22 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Lock and Dam No. 22 Historic District
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,233 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
13
Debris and open burning
7
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Lock and Dam No. 22 Historic District: 3 producers, 3 past producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
New London, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 28 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 1 lightning, 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.
Strong winds uprooted trees and destroyed a chicken coop along Highway 61. Closer to New London, the county sheriff reported many large trees blown down.
Several large trees were blown down along Highway 19 northeast of Center. Trees were also knocked down in New London with one damaging the corner of a house. Rainfall up to four inches was reported by a local newspaper.
Strong winds uprooted trees and destroyed a chicken coop along Highway 61. Closer to New London, the county sheriff reported many large trees blown down.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees, numerous tree limbs and several power lines, especially between New London and Old Highway 79. Some of the fallen trees blocked Highway V just east of New London.
Up to 3 inches of rain fell in about a two hour period over portions of Ralls County causing flash flooding. Highway F, just north of intersection with Highway C, was flooded where it crosses over Spencer Creek. Also, Highway 19 between Perry and Center was closed due to flooding.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees and numerous large tree limbs. A couple of the trees fell onto unoccupied cars near the courthouse in New London. The 71 mph wind gust was recorded on a tow boat in the Saverton Lock and Dam.
A lightning strike started a fire that destroyed a New London home. A neighbor reported hearing a very loud lighting strike about 12:15 CDT. About 4:45 am CDT, the neighbor was leaving for work and saw smoke and noticed fire in the windows. By the time fire fighters arrived the home was completely engulfed in flames and could not be saved.
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
3 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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