Woodneath

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Woodneath, also known as the Elbridge Arnold Homestead, is a historic farmhouse located in Kansas City, Missouri that was occupied by the Arnold, Moore, and Crouch families between 1855 and the late 1970s. It was named "Woodneath" after the abundant oak, pine, and sugar maples on the property, and many of those tree varieties are still present on the property today.”
Wikipedia article Woodneath, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 8900 NE Flintlock Rd., Kansas City, 64157
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Township. Liberty township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78001640 - 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

47 words

This property stands in Liberty Township. History of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers position and description, early settlers, liberty landing, country churches, city of liberty, first lacorporatiou.

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 Liberty Township - 47 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

25 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Woodneath between 2004 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	12
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Woodneath: 28 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dever Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Randolph Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Schell Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Dougherty-Prospect Heights Historic District	2.3 miles	2001
Garrison School Historic District	2.5 miles	2001
West Liberty Courthouse Square Historic District	2.6 miles	1992
Miller Building	2.6 miles	1992
South Liberty Courthouse Square Historic District	2.6 miles	1992
IOOF Liberty Lodge No. 49	2.6 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001640 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 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.