BlockFrom the record
One of 39 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Boarding House District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- Address. 401-608 Benton, 339-436 E Broadway, 201-223 S Francis, 105 Haynes, 309-526 Isley, 101 Linden, 110-112 Perry, 103-305 Saratoga, 000-213 Temple, Excelsior Springs, 64024
- When was it listed? August 2018
- Category. district
- Also known as. Excelsior Springs, Missouri MPS
- Township. Fishing River township
- National Register reference number. 100002791 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
52 wordsThis property stands in Fishing River Township. History of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers position aud description, early history, first settlers, etc, voters at first election in township, country churches, missouri city, its ler and subsequent career.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Fishing River Township - 52 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
13 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Boarding House District between 2011 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177901-08922-08082018-1512 |
| 9 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 7.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177358-08922-07092018-1629 |
| 23 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 5 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177354-08922-04202018-1443 |
| 31 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.6 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177241-02412-03312018-1042 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Boarding House District: 20 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay County Mine and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Doc Gould Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hedges Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mays Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mclaughlin Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rice Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Schoaler & Bates Shaft | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Excelsior Springs, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 2 hail. 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 1993 | Hail | Excelsior Springs | $5,000 | Large hail, ranging from just under 1.00 inch to golf ball-size, produced substantial damage to automobiles on several dealership lots in Gladstone. Two-inch-diameter hail was reported near Lake Doniphan Road in Excelsior Springs. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Excelsior Springs | - | Local agricultural officials reported moderate damage to crops from high wind and large hail. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Colonial Hotel | 0.2 miles | 2010 |
 | Hall of Waters | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial East Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1999 |
 | Ligon Apartments | 0.3 miles | 2010 |
 | First Methodist Church | 0.4 miles | 2009 |
 | Elms, The, Historic District | 0.5 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002791 in Record Group 79. |
| Clay County | All 39 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.