Everett School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Joseph Christian School, is a historic school building located at St. It was built in 1909, and is a two-story, "E"-plan, Colonial Revival style brick building on a raised basement.”
Wikipedia article Everett School (St. Joseph, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Buchanan County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 826 S 14th St., Saint Joseph, 64501
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. building
Also known as. St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri MPS AD; St. Joseph MPS
Township. Washington township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 05001023 - 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.

The ground it stands on

190 words

This property stands in Washington Township. History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - 190 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Everett School between 1995 and 2018, burning about 828 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	5
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
14 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Doniphan County	017-108
10 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177644-01110-04102018-1806
26 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 March 2018	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	176135-01105-03162018-0200
15 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Kansas Forest Service	28
14 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Kansas Forest Service	27
31 December 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 January 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	165953-01180-01072018-1213

Every fire recorded in Buchanan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Everett School: 24 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
St Joseph Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
City Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
City Quarry #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Farmer & Dunn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Heuemander Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Heumander Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Buchanan 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
Patee Town Historic District	under 500 feet	2002
Western Tablet and Stationery Company, Building #2	0.2 miles	2007
John Patee House	0.3 miles	1966
Burnside-Sandusky Gothic House	0.3 miles	2005
Robidoux School	0.3 miles	1983
Jesse James House	0.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001023 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Buchanan County	All 63 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.