Salisbury Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Salisbury Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Salisbury, Chariton County, Missouri. The district encompasses eight contributing buildings in an exclusively residential section of Salisbury.”
Wikipedia article Salisbury Square Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Chariton County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 402, 404, 406, 407, 408, 502, 504, 506, 508 S. Broadway, Salisbury, 65281
When was it listed? April 2009
Category. district
Township. Salisbury township
National Register reference number. 09000409 - 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

138 words

This property stands in Salisbury Township. Historical, Pictorial and Biographical Record, of Chariton County, Missouri, published 1896 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 Salisbury Township - 138 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

10 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Salisbury Square Historic District between 2014 and 2018, burning about 97 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 March 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	122170-02155-03062015-1523
16 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	122171-02155-03162015-1202
13 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	122172-02155-03132015-1609
11 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 February 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
21 February 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 February 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177065-02155-02162018-1054

Every fire recorded in Chariton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Salisbury Square Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Unknown - Sandstone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this property

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salisbury, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 23 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	$20,000	An NWS co-op observer reported downed trees up to 2 feet in diameter, as well as a metal roof torn off a building.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	$10,000	A barn and shed were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a residence and toppled several trees nearby.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	$5,000	Law enforcement officials reported downed power lines at the junction of US 24 and SR 5.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	$1,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Two wooden power poles were blown down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	$1,000	Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds east of Salisbury, knocking down several trees.
March 2023	Hail	Salisbury	-	A supercell produced 1 hail in Salisbury in Chariton County.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	Damage of a structure in Salisbury.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	Roof damage was reported to a structure in Salisbury due to strong winds as the leading edge of a squall line moved through.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	Wind gusts up to 65 mph with tree limbs downed across Salisbury.
June 2020	Flood	Salisbury	-	State Highway NN was closed due to flooding.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	Dispatch reported a tree down in Salisbury.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	A 12 inch diameter tree limb was down in Salisbury.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	Numerous trees were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Salisbury	-	Street flooding reported thoughout town.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Salisbury	-	Water over Highway 24 and Highway 129.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	The sheriff's department transmission tower was blown down.
February 2017	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
February 2017	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Salisbury	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Salisbury	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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

4 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
Fabrishous and Sarah A. Thomas House	0.2 miles	1999
Redding-Hill House	7.3 miles	1969
First Presbyterian Church	7.3 miles	1977
Chariton County Jail and Sheriff's Residence	7.5 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000409 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chariton County	All 7 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.