Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
From the record
“Christopher and Johanna Twelker Farm is a historic home and farm located near New Haven, Franklin County, Missouri. The farmhouse was built by German immigrants in 1871, and is a two-story, five-bay, stone I-house with a rear ell.”
Wikipedia article Christopher and Johanna Twelker Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 61 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 16000748 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
41 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Christopher and Johanna Twelker Farm
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
18 workings within 5 miles of Christopher and Johanna Twelker Farm: 17 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
New Haven, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 27 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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.
A mobile home was severely damaged after being turned over from high wind. Trees were also uprooted, a barn damaged, and windows blown out. Reported by a local newspaper.
A small tornado touched down just southwest of New Haven damaging the roof of a house. As the storm moved quickly east-northeast, it peeled the roof of a oil station off and pushed telephone poles along County Road C over. Just before crossing Highway 100, the tornado caused minor damage to the corner of a barn and snapped numerous large trees in half. The tornado lifted shortly after damaging a chicken house north of Highway 100. Witnesses said marble-size hail covered the ground and the storm sounded like a train passing by.
Thunderstorm wind gusts cause quite a bit of damage in the New Haven area. The roof of a gymnasium at a local school was blown off. Other homes suffered roof damage and numerous trees and power lines were downed.
The roof of the New Haven Police Department and radio tower suffered extensive damage. Large trees were also blown down and uprooted in the Leslie and Gerald areas.
A Tornado Debris Signature off of the KLSX radar appeared just south of the Missouri River and tracked north-northeast. Ground survey was unable to find damage directly associated with tornado, but NWS GIS Mutual Aid analysis of high resolution satellite imagery was able to find tree damage consistent with an EF-0 tornado.
Up to three inches of rain fell over Franklin county over a short period of time on already saturated soils. Numerous roads were closed due to flooding including Beemont Road, Beemont School Road, Detmold Road, Hoeman Road, and Highway C about a mile north of U.S. Highway 50.
A large swath of penny to nickel size hail fell from New Haven to 4 miles south of New Haven. Some locations reported hail up to one and a half inches in depth on the ground.
Lightning strikes caused damage at a couple of homes, knocked out telephone service across parts of town, and damaged a pump at the City Water Department. One home suffered broken windows, holes in the outside siding and inside drywall, and damage to household electronics. Two homes had to be evacuated after a lightning strike damaged a natural gas pipe.
Thunderstorm wind gusts caused some damage just south of New Haven. Trees and power lines were down, a barn and some outbuildings were also damaged. A mobile home was damaged when 3 trees were pushed over by the wind and ended up leaning on the side of the home.
The County Sheriff reported trees and power lines down. The wind also caused havoc at the County Youth Fair which had just started. A couple of large tents were blown down and electricity was knocked out in the area.
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
4 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.
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.
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