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One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
U.S. Army Publications Distribution Center
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1655 Woodson Rd., Overland, 63114
- When was it listed? October 2015
- Category. building
- Township. Creve Coeur township
- Architectural style. modern architecture
- National Register reference number. 15000704 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of U.S. Army Publications Distribution Center in 2014, burning about 1 acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Army Publications Distribution Center: 14 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alton Brick Co Pit & Plant | Clay | Producer | ||
| Evans and Howard Mine Number Five | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Creve Coeur Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lamb Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Orth Bros Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rock Hill Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Overland, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 hail, 9 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Hail | Overland | $75,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Overland | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | $2,700 | Downburst winds damaged numerous roofs and toppled large trees in suburbs surrounding Lambert Field. Damage was very localized and accompanied by very heavy rain. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | $200 | Six homes in the Fenton area suffered roof damage while another 12 to 18 houses were moderately damaged. The width of the damage path was about 40 yards. Power lines were blown down in the Overland area causing power outages. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Overland | - | There were numerous reports of golfball sized hail in Overland, with a couple reports of hail to tennis ball size. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | - | Several large trees were reported down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged the pump shelter at a gas station. Some trees and power lines were also downed in the area. The local power company reported about 40,000 customers lost power. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Overland | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Overland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Beverly Theater | 1.7 miles | 2005 |
 | Joseph and Ann Murphy Residence | 1.8 miles | 2010 |
 | Harry Hammerman House | 1.9 miles | 2008 |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary School | 1.9 miles | 2017 |
| Pasadena Hills Historic District | 2.0 miles | 2004 | |
 | Rudolph and Dorothy C. Czufin House | 2.1 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000704 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.
- 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.