Photograph of Jefferson Barracks Military Post — Photograph by John Stanton, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jefferson Barracks Historic District

Built in 1826. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Jefferson Barracks Military Post is located on the Mississippi River at Lemay, Missouri, south of St. It is the oldest operating U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi River, and it is now used as a base for the Army and Air National Guard.”
Wikipedia article Jefferson Barracks Military Post, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1972 · category: District · built in 1826.

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

The listing

Address. 10 mi. S of St. Louis on the Mississippi River, St. Louis County, 63125
When was it listed? February 1972
Category. district
Township. Lemay township
When was it built? 1826
National Register reference number. 72001492 - 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson Barracks Historic District in 2014, burning about 2 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	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
22 March 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 February 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Jefferson Barracks Historic District: 20 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants, 1 occurrence. 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
Alpha Portland Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Superior Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Allen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Columbia Quarry & Mill #9	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Eyerman Brothers Quarry Number One	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Friedrick Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Haller Brothers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hoffman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Sancta Maria in Ripa	1.0 miles	2022
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery	1.0 miles	1998
Jefferson Barracks VA Hospital	1.3 miles	2015
Mount Hope Cemetery	1.7 miles	2003
Robert Koch Hospital	2.0 miles	1984
Schlichtig House	2.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001492 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis County	All 663 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.