BlockFrom the record
One of 2 National Register listings published here for New Madrid County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Howardville School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 6916 US 61, Howardville, 63869
- When was it listed? November 2017
- Category. building
- Township. Lewis township
- National Register reference number. 100001847 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Howardville School in 2017, 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Howardville School: 9 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Madrid | Aluminum, Contained or Metal | Plant | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howardville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Howardville | $8,000 | A new farmer's market and flea market structure was destroyed. The structure was an open structure with no solid walls. A temporary booth-like structure used for auctions was blown over. The damage was near the 44-mile marker on Interstate 55. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Howardville | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down and a roof was torn off a gas station in New Madrid. A mobile home was overturned in Howardville by high wind. Reported by the county sheriff office. |
| October 1998 | Flash Flood | Howardville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Howardville | $1,000 | A tree was down. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Howardville | - | Half dollar to ping pong ball size hail occurred just southwest of New Madrid at U.S. 61/62 and Interstate 55. |
| April 2014 | Flash Flood | Howardville | - | Numerous roads were underwater. Several roads were closed. Schools were closed the following day in some districts. A storm-total rainfall of 7.9 inches was reported during the past 24 hours at Parma. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Howardville | - | Minor flooding of the Mississippi River occurred for most of the month of May. At the New Madrid gage, where flood stage is 34 feet, the river crested at 39.11 feet on the 15th. Agricultural bottomland and low-lying areas were flooded. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Howardville | - | Moderate flooding of the Mississippi River occurred. At the New Madrid gage, the river crested at 41.44 feet on March 27. Flood stage there is 34 feet, and moderate flooding begins at 40 feet. Large areas of agricultural land were flooded. Spring planting was not yet underway, so crop losses were negligible. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Howardville | - | A nearly stationary tornado was observed for a few minutes. Several law enforcement personnel confirmed the tornado. The brief tornado, which was not associated with any severe thunderstorms, caused no damage over open farmland. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter-Dawson House | 4.9 miles | 2012 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001847 in Record Group 79. |
| New Madrid County | All 2 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.
- 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.