Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“Central School Campus, also known as Central School and DeSoto High School, is a historic school complex located at De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri. The Central School was built about 1882, and remodeled into its current form in 1950.”
Wikipedia article Central School Campus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.09000813- 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
89 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Central School Campus
between 2003 and 2019, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
53
Debris and open burning
18
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Arson/incendiarism
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Smoking
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
20 workings within 5 miles of Central School Campus: 20 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Iron. 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
De Soto, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 27 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
County sheriff reported numerous trees and power lines down. About a dozen homes were damaged mainly from the falling trees. About 10 vehicles were also damaged by the falling trees.
A local newspaper reported wind damage to trees and a mobile home southeast of De Soto. Part of the roof was blown some distance from the original spot. A storm spotter reported wind gusts to 60 mph.
Thunderstorms winds blew down numerous large trees, tree limbs and power lines. Several of the trees landed on homes and cars causing minor to moderate damage. The roof of a business in De Soto was blown off.
The second of 2 severe thunderstorms roared through De Soto with wind gusts approaching 100 mph. Widespread trees and power lines were down knocking power out to the entire town. Damage assessment of the area conducted by the State Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross revealed the following:. Single family homes: 6 destroyed, 27 with major damage, and 111 with minor damage. Mobile homes: 1 destroyed, 2 with major damage, and 2 with minor damage. At the De Soto Senior and Junior High Complex, the Junior High gymnasium roof collapsed and the Senior High suffered roof damage. Teachers and students returning from a track meet wisely took refuge in a room beneath the gymnasium floor and escaped injury. Windows were also broken and virtually all trees on campus were downed. The scoreboard and the press box at the football field were also destroyed. Two businesses in town suffered major roof damage and the Parkview Baptist Church in the southeast part of town lost its entire roof. There was also significant tree and some house damage to the west and southwest of De Soto. On Dodson Road, one home was destroyed and another suffered major roof damage. Both homes sat on a ridge with a clear view to the west. In both cases, the garage doors blew in resulting in one home losing its entire roof and the other home part of its roof. Witnesses reported seeing a black and green mass covering the entire west horizon. At the home that lost its entire roof, there were nine people inside. Everyone went to the basement and escaped injury.
The first of 2 severe thunderstorms roared through De Soto causing widespread tree and power line damage. The bulk of the damage occurred from the middle to south part of town.
A local newspaper reported wind damage to trees and a mobile home southeast of De Soto. Part of the roof was blown some distance from the original spot. A storm spotter reported wind gusts to 60 mph.
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
2 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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