Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“Blackwater Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Blackwater, Cooper County, Missouri. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings in the central business district of Blackwater.”
Wikipedia article Blackwater Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cooper County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.04001520- 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.
This township is a peninsular, being almost entirely surrounded by the Lamine and Blackwater rivers. The soil is rich and exceedingly productive. The bottom land is low and swampy, and the ridge land fertile and susceptible of early cultivation. In the bottom, corn and timothy are grown in large quantities ; on the ridge land, corn, wheat, oats, tobacco, potatoes, and all kinds of garden vegetables are produced in great abundance. The different kinds of wood are ash, beach, black oak, black walnut, cherry, cottonw®od, elm, maple, hickory, redbud, sugar tree, white oak, and white walnut.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Blackwater Commercial Historic District
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 1 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
6
Debris and open burning
6
Recreation and ceremony
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Natural
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
21 workings within 5 miles of Blackwater Commercial Historic District: 19 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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
Blackwater, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado.
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.
F0 tornado crossed from Pettis county into Cooper county at 1604 CST...3 miles south-southwest of Blackwater. The tornado moved northeast over rural areas...and dissipated 4 miles east-northeast of Blackwater at 1617 CST. The tornado crossed Interstate 70 near mile marker 88 and blew over a tractor trailer. This closed the west bound lanes of I-70 for a time.
Several intersections across Cooper County were closed due to minor flooding. Route Z southbound 7 miles northwest of Pilot Grove was closed. Route NN 5 miles west of Pilot Grove was closed. And Route HH near Pilot Grove was closed.
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
1 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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