A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“Truman Farm Home, also known as the Solomon Young Farm, is a historic farm property at 12301 Blue Ridge Blvd in Grandview, Missouri. The farm property, first developed in the 1860s, was the residence of future U.S. president Harry S.”
Wikipedia article Harry S. Truman Farm Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 414 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1978 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.78001650- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Washington township. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
This little post village is situated on the west line of Missouri, about midway in Washington township. It now contains one store and post-office and a few dwelhng houses. Being on the State line between a free and a slave State, it has experienced some of the most remarkable events that have been known on a turbulent border: the Border Ruffian War of 1855-6, the awful commotions of the Civil War, and the bands of outlaws, murderers and robbers since the War of the Rebellion ceased have haunted this section to an unwonted degree.
The chapter covers washington township organized february g^ 18^6, the orders of court fixing the boundaries, first election held at the house of anson mccrackin, the lost townships, physical features, old settlers.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so
expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words,
stray characters.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Young, Solomon, Farm-Truman, Harry S., Farm
between 2006 and 2018, burning about 36 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
16
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Debris and open burning
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Natural
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Young, Solomon, Farm-Truman, Harry S., Farm: 10 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grandview, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
Hail up to one inch in diameter was reported by a spotter at the intersection of Interstate 435 and U.S. Route 71. The hail broke out a window on the spotter's car.
Shortly before 3 PM CST, public reported tree limbs down due to estimated 60 mph wind gusts from a severe thunderstorm moving through downtown Grandview, MO.
A narrow swath of wind, perhaps consistent with a mesovortex did some damage to portions of Grandview. Power lines were reported down across the city and several structures had some minor roof and siding damage. Straight line thunderstorm wind was determined to the be the cause due to the unidirectional layout of the debris field.
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.
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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