St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and Rectory

Built in 1923 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“Francis Xavier Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church located at Taos, Cole County, Missouri, United States, in the Diocese of Jefferson City. It is noted for its historic parish church and rectory.”
Wikipedia article St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and Rectory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Cole County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1923, Tudor Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7319 Cty. Rd. M, Taos, 65101
When was it listed? March 2016
Category. building
Also known as. Rural Church Architecture of Missouri, c. 1819 to c. 1945 MPS
Township. Liberty township
When was it built? 1923
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture, Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 16000100 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and Rectory between 1995 and 2015, burning about 9 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	3
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
9 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 March 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 November 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
18 January 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	116824-07611-01182015-1337

Every fire recorded in Cole County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and Rectory: 20 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Miner 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
Unknown-Ls	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
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cole County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taos, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 5 hail, 1 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
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Taos	$50,000	Strong winds ripped part of the roof off several small sheds.
May 2008	Hail	Taos	-	A trained spotter reported nickle size hail.
April 2015	Hail	Taos	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Taos	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Taos	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Taos	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cole 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
Moreau Park Historic District	5.4 miles	2009
Frank Miller Green Berry Road Historic District	6.0 miles	2022
Moreau Drive Historic District	6.3 miles	2013
International Shoe East End-Main Street Factory	6.4 miles	2021
Woodland-Old City Cemetery	6.5 miles	2018
Jefferson City National Cemetery	6.5 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000100 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cole County	All 54 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.