First Battle of Newtonia Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The First Battle of Newtonia Historic District, near Newtonia, Missouri, is a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) site that preserves the location of the First Battle of Newtonia, an 1862 battle during the American Civil War. The battle saw Confederate troops under Colonels Douglas H.”
Wikipedia article First Battle of Newtonia Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Newton 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 listing

Address. Jct. of MO 86 and MO 0, Newtonia, 64866
When was it listed? December 2004
Category. site
Township. Newtonia township
National Register reference number. 04000697 - 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of First Battle of Newtonia Historic District between 1994 and 2000, burning about 35 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
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
15 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 July 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 February 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 November 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 298 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 298 workings within 5 miles of First Battle of Newtonia Historic District: 297 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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
Cadmium Mine	Zinc, Cadmium	Past Producer
Old Devil Mine	Zinc, Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Zn & Pb & Coal	Zinc, Lead, Coal	Past Producer
Culpepper Diggings	Lead	Past Producer
Dorris & Cavender Mine	Lead	Past Producer
Dungy Mine	Zinc	Past Producer
Foster Mine	Lead	Past Producer
Shinn Mine	Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown - Zn	Zinc	Past Producer
Newtonia Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newtonia, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Newtonia	$3,000	no account filed
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Newtonia	-	Several large tree limbs were reported down on Highway 86.
July 2020	Hail	Newtonia	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Newtonia	-	Water was over Kentucky Road and Teal Drive. The road was impassable.
November 2015	Flood	Newtonia	-	MODOT reported that Highway 86 was closed between Newtonia and Stark City due to flooding.
December 2015	Flash Flood	Newtonia	-	Missouri Highway 86 was closed due to flooding.
May 2013	Flood	Newtonia	-	Highway 86 was closed due to high water.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Newtonia	-	A UPS driver reported water over Highway 86 and the road was impassable.
March 2010	Flash Flood	Newtonia	-	Highway M was closed due to flooding.
April 2006	Flash Flood	Newtonia	-	A section of Highway 86 near Newtonia was inundated with flash flooding from slow moving thunderstorms. A local fire department had to perform a water rescue in response to a vehicle that had been washed off the road from this swift moving water.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Newtonia	-	A section of Highway 86 between Newtonia and Stark City was closed due to flash flooding over the roadway.
April 2011	Hail	Newtonia	-	no account filed
January 2005	Flash Flood	Newtonia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Mathew H. Ritchey House	0.5 miles	1978
Second Battle of Newtonia Site	0.9 miles	2004
Jolly Mill	6.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000697 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 13 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.