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One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2006 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Maplewood Commercial Historic District at Manchester and Sutton
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 21 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Roughly bounded by Manchester, Marietta, Marshall and Sutton, Maplewood, 63143
- When was it listed? December 2006
- Category. district
- Township. Hadley township
- National Register reference number. 06001135 - 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
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Maplewood Commercial Historic District at Manchester and Sutton between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 22 March 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 October 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 72 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Maplewood Commercial Historic District at Manchester and Sutton: 69 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delore Barite Mill | Barium-Barite | Producer | ||
| Krummel and Buchner Mine | Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| St Louis Perlite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal | Past Producer | ||
| Tole and Thorp Fireclay Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal | Past Producer | ||
| Coffin Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No 7 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Evans and Howard Fireclay Mine No.6 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Gilker Fireclay Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Grandview Fireclay Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maplewood, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1999 | Hail | Maplewood | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maplewood | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down on Flora Avenue. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maplewood | - | A local television station reported trees down in Maplewood. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Maplewood | - | A tornado initially formed about 11:05 PM CST just north of the intersection of Manchester and South Hanley Road. The tornado damaged a large utility pole which then blocked the southbound lanes of South Hanley Road. The tornado then damaged the roof of a Red Lobster restaurant. The tornado also damaged the roof and the air conditioning unit of an Applebee's restaurant. The tornado then crossed a large Wal-Mart parking lot where it moved several vehicles and overturned a tractor-trailer. The last damage noted was the broken windows at the entrance of the Wal-Mart. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Maplewood | - | Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maplewood | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maplewood | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Maplewood | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Saratoga Lanes Building | 0.1 miles | 2008 |
| Dr. Leander W. Cape Buildings | 0.1 miles | 2005 | |
| Maplewood Historic Commercial District | 0.3 miles | 2019 | |
| Wilkinson School | 0.5 miles | 2018 | |
 | Greenwood Historic District | 0.6 miles | 2006 |
 | Charles S. and Mary Warder Rannells House | 0.6 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06001135 in Record Group 79. |
| St. Louis County | All 663 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.