John C. and Georgie Atwood House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Atwood, John C. and Georgie, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 100 S. Clay Ave., Ferguson, 63135
When was it listed? May 2018
Category. building
Also known as. Ferguson, Missouri, MPS
Township. Ferguson township
National Register reference number. 100002428 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 John C. and Georgie Atwood House 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of John C. and Georgie Atwood House: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Evans and Howard Mine Number Five	Clay	Past Producer
Prospect Hill Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferguson, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
November 2024	Heavy Rain	Ferguson	-	A trained spotter measured 9.52 inches of storm total rain. Light rain was still falling at the time of the observation.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferguson	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferguson	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. One tree was blown down in Ferguson blocking a roadway. Another tree was blown down in Spanish Lake Park blocking one of the roads in the park.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferguson	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines. Also, a power pole was snapped off.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferguson	-	A large tree was blown down on a home causing moderate damage on Elizabeth Street just south of I-270. No one in the home was injured.
May 2004	Hail	Ferguson	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferguson	-	Amateur radio spotters reported scattered trees down across North St. Louis County, primarily in the Ferguson area. One home suffered minor damage due to a downed tree.
April 2011	Hail	Ferguson	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Ferguson	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Ferguson	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferguson	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ferguson	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Church Street Commercial District	0.3 miles	1984
Wildwood House	0.4 miles	2006
Ferguson School Central School	0.4 miles	1984
Old Ferguson West Historic District	0.5 miles	2011
Norwood Hills Country Club	1.7 miles	2005
Taille de Noyer	1.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002428 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.
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.