Built in 1850. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“Fletcher House is a historic home located at Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, log dwelling with later frame additions.”
Wikipedia article Thomas C. Fletcher House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1850.
National Register reference number.74001076- 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
106 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Thomas C. Fletcher House
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 185 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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
69
Debris and open burning
11
Recreation and ceremony
8
Smoking
8
Arson/incendiarism
6
Equipment and vehicle use
4
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
17 workings within 5 miles of Thomas C. Fletcher House: 15 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 30 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 lightning.
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.
A large swath of one and three quarter to two and a half inch diameter hail fell in the Hillsboro area. One home sustained a broken window from the large hail. Also, eleven county vehicles were damaged by the large hail, in some cases knocking both the front and rear windshields out.
A discrete cell rapidly intensified over Jefferson County, producing hailstones between 1 and 1.50 inches in diameter over the course of 45 minutes in Hillsboro, Olympian Village, Crystal City, and Festus. No damage was reported. The thunderstorm kept producing severe hail after it exited into Illinois.
A tornado formed around 6:24pm CDT near the corner of Elm and 3rd streets on the northwest side of downtown Hillsboro, causing minor damage to the siding of the Good Shepherd Catholic Church. It continued eastward along the northern periphery of the downtown area, producing sporadic minor tree damage as it did so. When it approached Business Highway 21, the tornado damaged the facade and steeple of the First Baptist Church. Across the highway along 4th Street, the roof of the fire department building and a residence received minor damage. As the tornado moved over Vreeland Road and tracked along Sunny Lane, it briefly intensified, with several trees uprooted along the lane and minor roof damage occurring on an outbuilding. The tornado then weakened as it neared the end of Sunny Lane, dissipating in the wooded area just beyond the end of the roadway. Overall the tornado was rated EF0 with a max wind speed of 77 mph. The path length was 0.57 miles with a max path width of 200 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.
Numerous reports of large hail fell in a wide swath from Hillsboro to the Festus/Crystal City area. One inch or larger hail was also reported in Herculaneum and Hematite. The largest hailstones, around 3 inches in diameter were reported one mile north of Festus.
A tornado touched down near Hillsboro High School where some trees were topped. It moved across the football field where bleachers, hurdles and other school equipment were destroyed and blown up to 300 yards down the track of the tornado. Tree damage continued from the back side of the Hillsboro High School toward the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Several buildings, including barns and small outbuildings suffered major roof failures and numerous trees were uprooted across the fairgrounds with debris tossed up to 200 yards to the east northeast. The tornado continued east damaging the roof of a social services building and tossing insulation in the trees. It crossed Business Highway 21 topping more trees and causing minor roof damage to a number of homes on Micah Lane. The tornado dissipated near Lake Wauwanoka Road with only a few limbs broken off. Overall, the tornado was rated EF0 with a path length of 1.14 miles and a max path width of 75 yards.
Several inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on frozen ground causing flash flooding. Just northwest of Hillsboro, some water was flowing over Highway BB.
A small tornado hit the Raintree Plantation northwest of Hillsboro. Three homes suffered minor roof damage, a boat dock was damaged, and trees and power lines were down.
Heavy rain flooded several roads in the Hillsboro area. The intersection of routes Y and C was flooded and closed. Several other county roads in the area were flooded and impassable.
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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