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One of 63 National Register listings published here for Cape Girardeau County · listed in 2022 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Shady Grove Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 502 Cty. Rd. 211, Gordonville, 63701
- When was it listed? June 2022
- Category. site
- Township. Cape Girardeau township
- National Register reference number. 100007826 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Shady Grove Cemetery between 1996 and 2020, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230867-01617-09112020-1605 |
| 4 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 23 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230865-01617-06202020-1345 |
| 2 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179048-01617-06022019-0001 |
| 15 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177851-01617-05152018-1846 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Shady Grove Cemetery: 11 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Arnold Geisler Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Arnold Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Jackson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Marquette Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Oglesby Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Southeast Mo Stone Co Quarry & Plnt | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gordonville, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $100,000 | A microburst with estimated peak winds of 85 mph caused sporadic wind damage on the west side of Cape Girardeau, MO, during the early morning hours of April 2, 2024. Dozens of trees were uprooted or suffered damage to large tree limbs. A few homes also had shingle, siding, or facia damage. One home on W Highland Dr had more than half of the roof removed while a home on Woodbine Pl suffered roof damage after a tree fell on it. The microburst started just east of the path of an EF-0 tornado along County Road 318. Crossing over Interstate 55, damage continued into the west side of Cape Girardeau. The microburst was about 3.25 miles long and about 400 yards in width for the main damage swath, with isolated tree damage to the north. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $45,000 | On Route D north of Jackson, a large portion of roof was blown off a home, a metal carport was blown away, and a portion of a fence was blown down. Rainwater damaged the kitchen, laundry, and master bath. Elsewhere in the county, power lines were down near Gordonville. Several sheets of tin were wrapped around a tree in Fruitland. Shingles were blown off a home near Route K. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds were estimated near 70 MPH at Gordonville. Elsewhere in Cape Girardeau County, a roof was blown off a house at the intersection of County Road 473 and 472. Numerous trees and power lines were down on County Roads 206, 203, and 214. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $15,000 | A barn collapsed and was destroyed. A cow inside was killed, and several others were injured. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $6,000 | The roof was blown off a barn. Several trees were blown down. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Gordonville | $5,000 | A brief EF-0 tornado uprooted a few trees and downed several large tree limbs along County Rd 319 in central Cape Girardeau County during the early morning hours. The tornadic circulation quickly diminished as the storm moved east, but continued to produce sporadic straight line wind damage as it moved east-southeast into the west side of Cape Girardeau. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $2,000 | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $1,000 | Straight-line thunderstorm winds blew down a large portion of a tree north of Gordonville. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | $500 | Trees and power lines were blown down in the Jackson and Gordonville areas. This storm later produced 0.75-inch diameter hail near the intersection of County Roads F and OO. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gordonville | - | Lots of tree damage was reported along Highway 25 from Gordonville to Jackson. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Gordonville | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Gordonville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Gordonville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Thilenius, Col, George C., House | 5.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Kage School | 5.3 miles | 2005 |
 | Abraham Russell Ponder House | 5.5 miles | 2008 |
 | Fort D | 5.8 miles | 2019 |
 | Central High School | 5.9 miles | 2008 |
 | Erlbacher Buildings | 5.9 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007826 in Record Group 79. |
| Cape Girardeau County | All 63 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.