Ste. Genevieve Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Genevieve National Historical Park, established in 2020, consists of part or the whole of the area of the Ste. Genevieve Historic District, which is a historic district encompassing much of the built environment of Ste.”
Wikipedia article Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Ste. Genevieve County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Address unknown at this time, Ste. Genevieve, 63670
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Township. Ste. Genevieve township
National Register reference number. 66000892 - 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.

Fires near this property

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ste. Genevieve Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	230754-09540-09302020-1250
14 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179040-09540-07142019-0002
11 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	230661-09540-05112020-1925
1 December 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	251196-09540-12012020-1440
12 October 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	230840-09540-10122020-2345
19 January 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	176097-80001-01192018-1251

Every fire recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Ste. Genevieve Historic District: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Inkley Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Naeger Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Peerless Mine and Mill	Calcium	Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cohen Property	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Southern Missouri 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

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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

3 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
Jacques Dubreuil Guibourd House	0.2 miles	1969
Ste. Genevieve Historic District	0.2 miles	2002
Louis Bolduc House	0.8 miles	1969

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000892 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ste. Genevieve County	All 4 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.