Mount Zion Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Mount Zion Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery located east of Hallsville in Boone County, Missouri. The Gothic Revival style frame church was built in 1903.”
Wikipedia article Mount Zion Church and Cemetery (Hallsville, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11070 Mount Zion Rd., Hallsville, 65255
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Church Architecture of Missouri, c. 1819 to c. 1945 MPS
Township. Rocky Fork township
National Register reference number. 12001177 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Rocky Fork township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882 - Rocky Fork Township

History Op Boone Cottntt Miscellaneous

About twenty years since Mr. Wm. Watts was accidently shot and killed. The incident happened in the eastern part of this township. He and another man named Watkins were herding cattle, and while the two were carelessly handling a gun it was accidentally discharged and Watts was killed.

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The ground it stands on

20,830 words

The chapter on Rocky Fork Township in History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882 names Hallsville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

James Turner came from Kentucky in 1817, and located on a farm near Hallsville. He brought up a large family. His sons were Jesse, Tom and Enoch. Thomas Turner was the father of Mordecai, who lives east of Hallsville.

Passage source: History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882.

Isaac Davis came from Christian county, Kentucky, to this part of Missouri in 1818, and settled two miles east of Hallsville. His sons were James, Henry, Isaac, Benjamin, John and Joseph. One of Isaac's sons, Joseph, now lives on the old Davis homestead.

Passage source: History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882.

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 Rocky Fork Township - 20,830 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Mount Zion Church and Cemetery between 2011 and 2018, burning about 2 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	2
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
9 February 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177390-01420-02092018-0809
6 February 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177389-01420-02062018-1208
5 January 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hallsville, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 24 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2018	Lightning	Hallsville	$50,000	Two structures in town were struck by lightning. Both structures sustained damage from fires caused by the lightning strikes. No injuries were reported.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	$3,000	A large section of roof was blown off of a storage building in Hallsville. The debris was deposited about 100 feet away.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree. The tree blocked the roadway at Highway 124 and Barnes School Road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree onto a moving vehicle on Route B near Highway OO n Hallsville. Also in Hallsville, large tree branches snapped from a tree and a tree fell on a house, trapping occupants inside. No one was injured. Power was reportedly out for all of Hallsville. In Columbia, medium to large tree limbs were snapped and there were pockets of power outages in the City Utility District.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Several power poles were blown down on Highway 124 between Hallsville and Centralia.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Several trees were blown down around town.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Hallsville.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Hallsville	-	Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads in the Hallsville area were flooded.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Several trees were blown down onto Hwy Z about half a mile south of the intersection of Hwy Z and Hwy OO.
May 2005	Hail	Hallsville	-	Emergency management officials reported hail up to baseball size in Hallsville. Some roofs and automobiles were damaged.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some large tree branches and power lines.
May 2003	Funnel Cloud	Hallsville	-	A University of Missouri Storm Chaser reported a funnel cloud west of Hallsville.
May 2003	Hail	Hallsville	-	The County Sheriff Department reported 1 inch hail.
June 2002	Hail	Hallsville	-	The County Sheriff Department reported 3/4 inch hail.
February 2000	Hail	Hallsville	-	Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage from Hallsville east along Old Highway 124 to Highway Z. About 6 homes suffered minor roof damage. Several outbuildings were destroyed, some farm equipment damaged, and a couple cars were also damaged. Trees and powerlines were also downed.
June 2000	Hail	Hallsville	-	Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	A few trees and power lines were downed near Hallsville.
June 1995	Hail	Hallsville	-	The Boone County Emergency Operations Center reported golf ball-size hail along the Boone-Randolph County line and in the Hallsville area. Hail reached two inches in diameter in Sturgeon, but most stones were smaller. Wind gusts to 60 mph were also reported north of Ashland with a roof damaged and trees down across northeast parts of the county.
May 1995	Hail	Hallsville	-	Reported by the Boone County Emergency Operations Center.
June 2020	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hallsville	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Hallsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001177 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone County	All 51 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.
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.