Buchanan County Infirmary

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Buchanan County Infirmary, also known as Buchanan County Poor Farm and Green Acres, is a historic hospital building located in St. It was built in 1919, and is a two-story, F-shaped Classical Revival-style building with a "fireproof' concrete structure, brick walls, and a cross-hip roof clad with red ceramic tiles.”
Wikipedia article Buchanan County Infirmary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Buchanan County · listed in 2009 · 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. 3500 N. Village Dr., Saint Joseph, 64506
When was it listed? January 2009
Category. building
Township. Washington township
National Register reference number. 08001386 - 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Buchanan County Infirmary between 1995 and 2020, burning about 30 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
6 April 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	200563-00202-03072020-1045
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
1 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.1 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	200561-00202-03012020-0840
26 February 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	134052-00202-02262016-2148

Every fire recorded in Buchanan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Buchanan County Infirmary: 30 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. 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
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
City Quarry #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Everett Quarries #51	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Farmer & Dunn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Heuemander Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Heumander Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Riverview Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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
Issac Miller House	1.6 miles	1980
John Sublett Jr. and Caroline Ashton Logan House	2.6 miles	2007
Krug Park Place Historic District	2.9 miles	2002
Miller-Porter-Lacy House	3.0 miles	1982
Maple Grove	3.0 miles	1974
Dr. Jacob Geiger House-Maud Wyeth Painter House	3.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001386 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.