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Dilday Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Dilday Mill, also known as Finley Mill, was a historic grist mill building located at Greenfield, Dade County, Missouri. It was built in 1867, and was a water-powered, grist mill standing two stories above ground level and three stories above Turnback Creek.”

Wikipedia article Dilday Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Dade County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. SE of South Greenfield on Turnback Creek, South Greenfield, 65752
  • When was it listed? August 1977
  • Category. building
  • Township. South township
  • National Register reference number. 77000805 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Dilday Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1

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
19 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220601-921-05052020-2215
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176936-921-04242018-1430
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220598-921-03072020-1535
18 March 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 October 1999Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 January 2018Debris and open burning55 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176130-921-01252018-1221
12 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176128-921-01122018-1538

Every fire recorded in Dade 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 Dilday Mill: 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
Parks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dade County

Storms near this property

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Greenfield, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2022Flash FloodSouth Greenfield1 killed, $10,000A vehicle with two occupants was swept off a low water crossing on County Road 143 at Limestone Creek. One occupant was able to make it to safety but the second, a 65 year old male, drowned.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield$5,000A tree was blown on to powerlines just south of Greenfield.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield$5,000Powerlines were blown down on a house just southeast of Greenfield.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield$5,000Several trees and power lines were reported down in the area.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield$1,000A powerline was down due to thunderstorm winds south of Greenfield.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield-Several large tree limbs were reported down on the road.
May 2022Flash FloodSouth Greenfield-A water rescue was performed at a low water crossing near County Roads 132 and 143.
March 2021HailSouth Greenfield-Several reports of quarter sized hail were received via social media.
May 2019Heavy RainSouth Greenfield-A 24 hour rainfall accumulation of 4.60 inches was reported by the public.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield-A home weather station measured a wind gust of 83 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSouth Greenfield-A few trees were reported down near the intersection of Highways 160 and 39.
September 2009Heavy RainSouth Greenfield-There was 2.00 inches of rain measured.
April 2011HailSouth Greenfield-no account filed
July 2008Funnel CloudSouth Greenfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dade 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Greenfield Opera House Building7.0 miles1998
Washington Hotel7.0 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000805 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dade CountyAll 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.