Photograph of Devils Elbow Bridge — Photograph by Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Devil's Elbow Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 12175, 12177, 12198 Timber Rd., 21050, 21104, 21141, 21150 Teardrop Rd., Devil's Elbow, 65457
When was it listed? April 2017
Category. district
Also known as. Route 66 in Missouri MPS
Township. Cullen township
National Register reference number. 100000566 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Devil's Elbow Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 688 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
23 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	PJ WF
30 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	WESTERN STAR
12 May 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	DECKER RIDGE
10 May 1995	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 2019	Arson/incendiarism	307 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	BIG PINEY
8 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	86 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	THREE STEVE'S
5 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Mark Twain National Forest	SMITH HOLLOW
5 April 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Devil's Elbow Historic District: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Unk	Iron	Past Producer
Devils Elbow Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fred Gray Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Howard Ready Mix Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski 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
Piney Beach	0.6 miles	2017
Onyx Cave	3.2 miles	1999
Old Stagecoach Stop	7.6 miles	1980
Pulaski County Courthouse	7.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000566 in Record Group 79.
Pulaski County	All 6 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.