A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1808. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“Fort Osage was an early 19th-century factory trading post run by the United States Government in western Missouri on the American frontier; it was located in present-day Sibley, Missouri. The Treaty of Fort Clark, signed with certain members of the Osage Nation in 1808, called for the United States to establish Fort Osage as a trading post and to protect the Osage from tribal enemies.”
Wikipedia article Fort Osage, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 414 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1808 · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000418- 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.
Colonel James Chiles lived west of Sibley about four miles, and Frank Chiles, his brother, lived on an adjoining farm. Both were prominent men in the county, James especially, was a politician and held many important offices. James Chiles now lives in Texas, being a man of eighty-five years of age. He came from Kentucky when a young man and became one of the first settlers in Fort Osage township.
Col. John Hambright was an early settler about two and a half miles south- of Sibley. He Hved on the State road and kept a stage station, till there was no more use for stages. He died there about six years ago.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Fort Osage
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 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
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Smoking
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Recreation and ceremony
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
7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Osage: 6 past producers, 1 producer.
1 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sibley, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.
The Missouri River at Sibley crested at 32.80 feet on May 8, 2007, or 10.80 feet above flood stage. This was the third highest crest ever.|Several homes were flooded.
Tornado touched down 1 mile northwest of Sibley in rural areas at 0915 CST...with damage to trees and power lines noted. The tornado crossed into Ray county at 0915 CST...2 miles north northeast of Sibley.
A tornado formed near the Jackson and Ray County line along the Missouri River. The tornado crossed into Ray County about 2 minutes after forming in wooded areas along the river.
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
1 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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