Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“Fortmann Building, also known as the Dickmann Store, is a historic commercial building located at Marthasville, Warren County, Missouri, United States. It was built in 1904, and is a two-story, Late Victorian style frame building on a stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Herman H. Fortmann Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.06000332- 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
16 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Herman H. Fortmann Building
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 2 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
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Natural
2
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
13 workings within 5 miles of Herman H. Fortmann Building: 12 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. 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
Marthasville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 flood, 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.
A local newspaper reported wind damage to several homes in town and farms both west and east of town. Several large trees were blown down and a shed was demolished killing a calf on a farm about one mile west of Marthasville. In town, several television attennas were knocked down and at least one garage door was blown off.
Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Marthasville as well as a couple of trees and numerous tree limbs. In Dutzow, numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
Numerous reports of large hail in southeastern Warren County. Most were around an inch, though two inch hail was reported 4 miles east of Marthasville.
Two to four inches of rain fell over portions of Warren county during the afternoon and evening hours of February 5th. A dry creek bed just southwest of Marthasville was overrunning its banks, flooding several nearby roads including Highway 94 for a time.
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.
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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