Phoenix American Cob Pipe Factory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cooper County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2nd & Vine Sts., Boone, 65233
When was it listed? November 2019
Category. building
Township. Boonville township
National Register reference number. 100004604 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

4,051 words

This property stands in Boonville Township. A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Boonville Township - 4,051 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Phoenix American Cob Pipe Factory between 1999 and 2020, burning about 77 acres 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	13
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	251267-02732-09262020-2010
2 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	190053-02732-09162019-1015
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	190049-02732-08022019-1115
17 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	251265-02732-08172020-1610
16 August 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Cooper 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 Phoenix American Cob Pipe Factory: 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Booneville Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Klusmeyer Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cooper 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
Boller House	0.1 miles	1977
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Depot	0.2 miles	1990
Historic District B	0.2 miles	1983
Historic District A	0.2 miles	1983
Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company Building	0.2 miles	1990
Historic District C	0.2 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004604 in Record Group 79.
Cooper 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.