Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Old Rock House, also known as Shapley Ross House, is a historic home located at Moscow Mills, Lincoln County, Missouri. It was built between about 1818 and 1821, and is a two-story, five-bay, Classical Revival style squared rubble limestone dwelling, with a two-story rear ell added about 1870.”
Wikipedia article Old Rock House (Moscow Mills, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.72000721- 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
3 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Old Rock House
between 1997 and 2011, burning about 4 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
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Old Rock House: 7 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
Moscow Mills, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees. One tree fell onto Creech Road southwest of Moscow Mills. On Highway KK in Cuivre River State Park, 4 trees were blown over onto the roadway. On Twin Valley Road, a large tree was blown down, knocking the electrical box off of a house.
The Missouri Highway Patrol reported an operator of a Utility Task Vehicle (UTV) left his residence to make a visual observation of nearby flood waters. The UTV became stuck and the victim started walking in the flood water, and drowned.
Several trees and large tree limbs were blown down. One large tree limb was blocking U.S. 61 just west of town. Also, some siding was blown off of a church.
Storm spotters reported isolated damage from thunderstorm winds south of Moscow Mills. Two utility poles were damaged, roof shingles blown off, a garage door damaged, and a flag pole was bent over.
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.
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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