Lentz-Carter Merchandise Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“Lentz-Carter Merchandise Store, also known as Lentz-Carter Building, is a historic general store located at Stella, Newton County, Missouri. It was built in 1890, and is a two-story, frame building sheathed in clapboard.”
Wikipedia article Lentz-Carter Merchandise Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 744 Ozark St., Stella, 64867
When was it listed? August 2008
Category. building
Township. Franklin township
National Register reference number. 08000799 - 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

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Lentz-Carter Merchandise Store between 1994 and 2020, burning about 132 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
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
23 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
18 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	230657-07353-06102020-2035
8 May 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 March 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 March 2019	Debris and open burning	7.3 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179181-07353-03262019-1645

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stella, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 6 flash flood, 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stella	1 hurt, $25,000	no account filed
March 2023	Flash Flood	Stella	$10,000	A water rescue was performed on Highway D near South Indian Creek south of Stella. All passengers were rescued successfully.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Stella	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted a large tree and knocked the tops out of several others along Highway O and Redbud Roads. An old hay bard also suffered minor damage.
May 2024	Hail	Stella	-	Report of quarter size hail just north of Stella.
March 2023	Flash Flood	Stella	-	Highway D at South Indian Creek near Tiger Road was flooded and impassable.
April 2022	Flash Flood	Stella	-	Several sections of Route D were flooded and impassable along South Indian Creek.
April 2022	Flood	Stella	-	Highway A in Stella was flooded and impassable along South Indian Creek.
May 2022	Flood	Stella	-	State Highway A was closed due to flooding at Indian Creek.
March 2021	Hail	Stella	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2021	Flash Flood	Stella	-	The low water crossing on Highway A was closed at South Indian Creek was flooded and impassable.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Stella	-	Highway A was flooded and impassable near a headwater tributary of Indian Creek.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Stella	-	Multiple swift water rescues were performed near the Stella and Fairview areas, along Highways AA, HH, and D.
February 2018	Flood	Stella	-	State Highway A was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Second Battle of Newtonia Site	7.8 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000799 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 13 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.
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.