St. Charles Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Charles Historic District is a national historic district located at St. It is the site of the first permanent European settlement on the Missouri River and of the embarkation of Lewis and Clark's journey of exploration along the Missouri.”
Wikipedia article St. Charles Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for St. Charles County · listed in 1970 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by the Missouri River and Madison, Chauncey, and 2nd Sts., St. Charles, 63045
When was it listed? September 1970
Category. district
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 70000856 - 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

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Charles Historic District in 2003, burning under an 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
23 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Charles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of St. Charles Historic District: 9 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Alton Brick Co Pit & Plant	Clay	Producer
Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Thomas Mine #2	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crystal Springs Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Missouri Pacific Rr Co.Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
St Charles Quarry - Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
St Charles Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Charles 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
St. Charles Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.3 miles	1987
First Missouri State Capitol Buildings	0.4 miles	1969
Stone Row	0.4 miles	1969
St. Charles Odd Fellows Hall	0.4 miles	1987
St. Charles Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	0.4 miles	1991
Old City Hall	0.4 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000856 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Charles County	All 40 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.