Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“Fredericktown Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri. The district encompasses 26 contributing buildings in the central business district of Fredericktown.”
Wikipedia article Fredericktown Courthouse Square Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 2009 · category: District.
National Register reference number.09000503- 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
65 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Fredericktown Courthouse Square Historic District
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 121 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
43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
86 workings within 5 miles of Fredericktown Courthouse Square Historic District: 83 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Lead, Cobalt, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Fredericktown, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 34 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
A tornado hit Madison County, first causing damage about 9 miles south of Fredericktown along Highway 67. A mobile home was destroyed and a frame house lost its roof. The tornado moved east through a heavily wooded area uprooting and damaging trees. The tornado reached Marquand, a small town of about 400 people, about 4 pm and caused considerable damage. Large trees were uprooted or snapped off and nearly every structure in a 3 to 4 block area was damaged. The Fire Station was completely destroyed as was a restaurant that was next to it. Several other frame buildings lost all or parts of their roofs. A State Emergency Management Agency damage assessment reported that 6 homes were destroyed, 12 homes suffered major damage, and 22 homes had minor damage. There were 3 minor injuries reported.
Widespread tree damage was reported between Fredericktown and Marquand. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. MODOT crews were called to clear tree debris from Highways M, J, W and D.
Two to four inches of rain fell over a short amount of time on ground that was already saturated from previous rains in the past 24 hours. The sheriff's department reported that two low water bridges in town were flooded and the roads were closed.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs in Fredericktown, as well as several power lines. About 4 miles southwest of Cherokee Pass, a large tree was blown onto Highway C.
Thunderstorm winds snapped off several trees that were 10 to 12 inches in diameter on the south side of Fredericktown. One of the trees fell against a house causing moderate damage. A roof was torn off of a metal garage as well.
The same supercell thunderstorm that spawned the Iron County tornadoes spawned two more tornadoes in Madison County. The first tornado caused damage in an area northwest of Fredericktown known as Catherine Place. Witnesses observed the tornado form in an open field and then move east crossing Highway H and causing damage at the County Star Mobile Home Park. The majority of the damage was from downed trees or large tree limbs. One home just south of the mobile homes suffered major damage from a large downed tree. Another home just east of the mobile home park suffered minor roof damage and had four windows blown in. The tornado crossed US Highway 67 near County Road 220 and caused damage in the White Tail Crossing neighborhood. trees were downed and snapped off at this location.
The second tornado in Madison County first caused damage near County Road 217 when it blew off part of the roof of a barn, caused minor roof damage to a home, and downed and snapped off trees. The tornado moved east and destroyed a detached garage at a home on County Road 219 just north of County Road 221. The owner of the home was outside and saw the tornado coming. He moved inside just before the tornado arrived and was not injured. The tornado moved east through fields causing intermittent tree damage. The next significant damage occurred near the end of the tornado's track just north of Higdon along County Road 257. A home had almost all of the roof shingles blown off and a couple of windows blown in. The owner commented that he ended up with about 2 inches of leaves inside his house. A trampoline in the backyard was picked up, blown to the north and wrapped around a tree. A 14 foot fishing boat that was on a pond behind the house was picked up and ended up 100 yards away suspended in some trees.
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.
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.
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