Charles and Bettie Birthright House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Charles and Bettie Birthright House is in Clarkton, Dunklin County, Missouri. Built in 1872, the house was occupied by Charles and Bettie Birthright for approximately 40 years, who were African American community leaders in Dunklin County.”
Wikipedia article Charles and Bettie Birthright House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Dunklin 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.
Listed as. Birthright, Charles and Bettie, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 109 S. Main St., Clarkton, 63837
When was it listed? October 2009
Category. building
Township. Freeborn township
National Register reference number. 09000857 - 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.

Storms near this property

23 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkton, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2026	Tornado (EF0)	Clarkton	$125,000	A tornado touched down just east of Baird between County Roads 316 and 320 overturning multiple center pivots. The tornado continued into the town of Clarkton, causing roof damage to a state school, convenience store, and multiple homes along Page Street just south of W Highway 162. Additional damage was noted to an outbuilding south of E Highway 162, with debris spreading into a nearby field. The tornado lifted just before the town of Gideon.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkton	$30,000	Straight line winds extensively damaged a roof of a school.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkton	$15,000	Trees and powerlines down in Clarkton.
April 2006	Hail	Clarkton	$10,000	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Clarkton	$6,000	no account filed
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkton	$5,000	A couple of trees were blown down.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkton	$5,000	A few trees were blown down.
May 2006	Hail	Clarkton	$5,000	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Clarkton	$2,500	no account filed
June 2003	Flash Flood	Clarkton	$1,000	Several streets were flooded.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Clarkton	$1,000	Some roads were flooded.
August 2003	Hail	Clarkton	$110	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Clarkton	$50	no account filed
July 2022	Hail	Clarkton	-	Estimated 0.75 inch hail fell in Clarkton, Dunklin County.
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Clarkton	-	Estimates of 5 to 6 inches of rainfall near Clarkton.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkton	-	Large tree uprooted.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkton	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkton	-	Straight line winds knocked down a few trees and powerlines in Clarkton.
July 2023	Hail	Clarkton	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Clarkton	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Clarkton	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Clarkton	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Clarkton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dunklin 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
	Campbell Commercial Historic District	6.7 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000857 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dunklin County	All 5 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.
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.