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Pleasant Green

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Pleasant Green, also known as the Andrews-Chesnutt House and Winston Walker House, is a historic home located near Pilot Grove, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built about 1825, and is a two-story, five-bay, Classic Revival style brick dwelling with a two-story wood-frame addition.”

Wikipedia article Pleasant Green, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cooper County · listed in 1977 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 8 mi. SW of Pilot Grove on U.S. 135, Pilot Grove, 65276
  • When was it listed? July 1977
  • Category. building
  • Township. Clear Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 77000804 - 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.

The ground it stands on

682 words

This property stands in Clear Creek Township. A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Clear Creek Township - 682 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Pleasant Green in 2014, burning about 3 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Cooper County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Green: 2 past producers. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sweeny QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cooper County

Storms near this property

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pilot Grove, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Tornado (EF2)Pilot Grove$100,000A tornado with an estimated peak wind of 115 mph (EF-2) traveled for around 6.3 miles across portions of western Cooper County, Missouri, impacting the town of Pilot Grove and surrounding areas. The tornado damage path began just southwest of downtown Pilot Grove, where it caused some minor damage to an outbuilding at a farmstead. The tornado then traveled to the northeast, where it caused minor damage to the roofs of homes on W Bock Street and the Katy Manor on Prospect Street. It then caused damage to several structures along W Harris Street near the intersection of W 3rd Street. In this location, a manufactured home was thrown 100 feet off its cinder blocks and completely destroyed. Large trees were uprooted onto the roof of a home next to the destroyed manufactured home, and an outbuilding was destroyed. The tornado continued to move to the north northeast, where it caused severe damage to a newly well built barndominium style home along Route M just south of Immele Road. After this, the tornado roughly paralleled Route 135, where it damaged numerous houses, completely destroyed outbuildings, caused extensive tree damage, and snapped numerous power poles. The area between the barndominium near Route M and Immele Road and along Route 135 up to Chouteau Springs Rd is where the most extensive damage occurred, with maximum estimated winds up to 115 mph (EF-2), as well as the widest part of the tornado damage path (up to 200 yards). The tornado then turned more northward, with limited observed damage. A small outbuilding was severely damaged along the south outer road of Interstate 70. No damage was observed north of Interstate 70.
April 2001Tornado (F1)Pilot Grove$25,000Tornado on the ground around Pilot Grove for 5 minutes, moving east. It produced minor roof damage to two homes. There were also downed trees and power lines. It was accompanied by baseball sized hail.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPilot Grove-Emergency Manager reports large trees down in Pilot Grove.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPilot Grove-The top of a tree of unknown size or condition was twisted and a 20 inch tree was down. Powerlines across the area were down as well.
January 2005Flash FloodPilot Grove-Harriman Road by Highway 135 had water over the road due to heavy rains.
May 2004Flash FloodPilot Grove-Water over the road on M Highway. Also a bridge was washed out on HH Highway. Highway B was also flooded.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPilot Grove-8 inch diameter tree fell down on a trailer home.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPilot Grove-Large trees were downed in Pilot Grove.
April 1998HailPilot Grove-Dime-size hail was repported in a severe thunderstorm at Pilot Grove.
April 2014HailPilot Grove-no account filed
May 2011HailPilot Grove-no account filed
May 2009HailPilot Grove-no account filed
April 2005HailPilot Grove-no account filed
May 2002HailPilot Grove-no account filed
April 2001HailPilot Grove-no account filed
May 2000HailPilot Grove-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPilot Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooper 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

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Prairie View3.1 miles1982
New Lebanon Historic District3.3 miles1998
New Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church and School3.7 miles1979
Mount Nebo Baptist Church5.3 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000804 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cooper CountyAll 39 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.