Wellston Loop Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bounded by the city limits, the alleys S. and N. of Martin Luther King Dr. and Clara Ave., St. Louis, 63112
When was it listed? September 2010
Category. district
National Register reference number. 09001266 - 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wellston Loop Commercial Historic District between 2006 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
18 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Wellston Loop Commercial Historic District: 64 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Perlite. 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
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Delore Barite Mill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Krummel and Buchner Mine	Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
St Louis Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Evans and Howard Mine Number Five	Clay	Past Producer
Grandview Mine Number Seventeen	Clay	Producer
Guelker Mine Number Four	Clay	Past Producer
Highlands Mine Number Four	Clay	Past Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 4	Clay	Past Producer
Mine Number 7	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Wellston J.C. Penney Building	0.1 miles	2009
Wellston Station	0.2 miles	2007
Hempstead School	0.4 miles	2007
Arlington School	0.5 miles	2008
Oakherst Place Concrete Block District	0.7 miles	1987
Goodfellow-Julian Concrete Block District	0.7 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001266 in Record Group 79.
St. Louis County	All 663 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.