Kimmswick Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Kimmswick Historic District is a historic national historic district located at Kimmswick, Jefferson County, Missouri. The district encompasses 44 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Kimmswick.”
Wikipedia article Kimmswick Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Front St., Fourth St., Mill St., Elm St. and Oak St., Kimmswick, 63053
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. district
Township. Windsor township
National Register reference number. 07000752 - 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

91 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Kimmswick Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 were 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	56
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
9 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	GARHEB
21 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Kimmswick Historic District: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Unknown - Lead	Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Glen Park Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Goetz Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Jefferson County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
North Tunnel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Old Goetz Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
South Tunnel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimmswick, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
July 2015	Flash Flood	Kimmswick	2 killed, $4,000,000	Up to 7 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. The main band of heavy rain extended from northwest of Cedar Hill southeastward to southeastern Jefferson County, south of Festus. Four vehicles were swept off of Meyer Road, just west of intersection with U.S. Highway 67, when Buck Creek rose well above its banks. All four vehicles were swept downstream but only two were occupied, the other two had been in a nearby parking lot. Two bodies were found further downstream, a 35 year old female and a 50 year old female. Authorities say that the owners of the other two vehicles have been accounted for. Several rescues had to be performed including on Montauk Drive just off of U.S. Highway 67, about 2 miles north northeast of Olympian Village. Also, a levee was over topped on Plattin Creek next to Lakeside Manor Mobile Home Park. Four to five feet of water flooded the mobile home park. Sixty to seventy people had to be rescued. Three people were injured and brought to a local hospital. Numerous businesses were flooded. One business had about a dozen ATVs damaged or ruined by the flood waters. Mercy Hospital in Crystal City had to close its emergency department for a couple of days when flood waters came into that area of the hospital, the rest of the hospital remained open. Several homes along Cotter Creek, off of Hillsboro Victoria Road near intersection with Highway P, were damaged/destroyed from flood waters as the creek quickly rose there. One person had to be rescued after her vehicle was swept into Cotter Creek by the flood waters. She was clinging to a tree for over an hour before being rescued. Several roads were washed out due to the flash flooding. Damage to the roads and bridges was estimated around $1.5 million with total damage estimated close to $3-4 million.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Kimmswick	$15,000	Heavy rain caused a few road closures in Jefferson County. One road closure was near Regina on Missouri BB and Regina Road. Here, downed power poles were reported. The other was near Imperial around US Highway 61/67 and Scott Lane/Mill Creek Drive/Montebello Road.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Kimmswick	-	Thunderstorm winds caused minor siding damage to the west side of a house and blew down a tree.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Kimmswick	-	Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including U.S. Highways 61/67 near Bailey Road.
April 2002	Hail	Kimmswick	-	The public reported nickel size hail.
March 2025	Hail	Kimmswick	-	no account filed
March 2025	Hail	Kimmswick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Windsor Harbor Road Bridge	0.2 miles	1983
Gustave Greystone-Meissner House	4.4 miles	1974
Stonebrook	5.2 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000752 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 10 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.