BlockBefore
Photograph of Dillard Mill State Historic Site
Photograph by Kbh3rd, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dillard Mill Historic District

Built in 1977. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Dillard Mill State Historic Site is a privately owned, state-administered property on Huzzah Creek in Crawford County, Missouri, that preserves a water-powered gristmill. The 132-acre (53 ha) site has been operated as a state historic site by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources under a lease agreement with the L-A-D Foundation since 1975.”

Wikipedia article Dillard Mill State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 2015 · category: District · built in 1977.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 142 Dillard Mill Rd., Davisville, 65456
  • When was it listed? January 2015
  • Category. district
  • Township. Osage township
  • When was it built? 1977
  • National Register reference number. 14001157 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Dillard Mill Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,379 acres in total. None started naturally. 64 were 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
Arson/incendiarism64
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarism60 acresMark Twain National ForestDONUT CRAWFORD CO
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestAIRPORT ROAD
19 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMark Twain National ForestBARB
9 May 2005Arson/incendiarism73 acresMark Twain National ForestCROOKED
9 April 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National Forest2711
9 April 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National Forestnot named
8 April 1995Debris and open burning37 acresMark Twain National ForestBEEFSTEAK HOLLOW
7 April 1995Debris and open burning18 acresMark Twain National ForestASHER CREEK

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dillard Mill Historic District: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Zinc, Cadmium, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Viburnum No.'s 27, 28, 29, and 35 (Casteel) minesLead, Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Zinc, Cadmium, NickelProducer1955, 1960
Central ServicesLeadUnknown
Adams PropertyIronOccurrence
Mine Lamotte Bank No. 1IronPast Producer
Prewitt MountainIronOccurrence
Redpoint MineIronPast Producer
Smith MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this property

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davisville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Thunderstorm WindDavisville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto Highway 49 west of Davisville.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindDavisville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees at the intersection of Highway 49 and Route V. Some of the trees were blocking the intersection. Also, several power lines were blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDavisville-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
February 2006HailDavisville-The public reported hail up to quarter size covered the ground.
March 2025HailDavisville-no account filed
March 2006HailDavisville-no account filed
March 2006HailDavisville-no account filed
March 2006HailDavisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 14001157 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crawford CountyAll 14 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.