Caldwell County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Caldwell County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Kingston, Caldwell County, Missouri, USA. It was built between 1896 and 1898 and is a two-story red-brick building, set upon a regular ashlar foundation.”
Wikipedia article Caldwell County Courthouse (Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Caldwell County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Kingston, 64650
When was it listed? January 1972
Category. building
Township. Kingston township
National Register reference number. 72000707 - 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Caldwell County Courthouse between 1995 and 1999, burning about 30 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 April 1995	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 April 1995	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Caldwell County Courthouse: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Bridgewater Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Everett Qsy # 6	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingston, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 1993	Hail	Kingston	$50,000	Numerous windows were broken by baseball-size hail in Kingston. Heavy rains also flooded County Roads U and A. Shoal Creek overtopped levees flooding approximately 10,000 acres at a lost of over $2 million.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	$5,000	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Kingston	$5,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Damaged out buildings and roof blown off machine shed.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Emergency management reported 60 mph wind gust.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Kingston	-	Highway 13 just south of Kingston is impassible and closed due to high water.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	A spotter estimated 60 mph winds.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Winds were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated to 60 mph.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	Four to six inch tree limbs, were reported to have been snapped off.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	60 mph winds were reported with a thunderstorms at Kingston.
March 2022	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingston	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Kingston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Far West	5.4 miles	1970
	Switzer, P.A. Residence	7.6 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000707 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Caldwell County	All 3 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.