Sancta Maria in Ripa

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 320 East Ripa Ave., St. Louis, 63125
When was it listed? October 2022
Category. district
Township. Lemay township
National Register reference number. 100008257 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sancta Maria in Ripa between 2006 and 2014, burning about 3 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	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 March 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 February 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 October 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Sancta Maria in Ripa: 32 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Superior Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Alpha Portland Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No.6	Clay	Past Producer
Mine Number 8	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Allen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Columbia Quarry & Mill #9	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working 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
Jefferson Barracks Historic District	1.0 miles	1972
Schlichtig House	1.3 miles	1980
Mount Hope Cemetery	1.3 miles	2003
Carlin-Rathgeber House	1.4 miles	1980
Steins Street District	1.5 miles	1980
Otzenberger House	1.6 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008257 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.