Neff Tavern Smokehouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Neff Tavern Smokehouse is a historic smokehouse located on the old Santa Fe Trail northeast of Napton, Saline County, Missouri. It is off Interstate 70 and 6 miles west of Arrow Rock, Missouri.”
Wikipedia article Neff Tavern Smokehouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Saline 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Napton off MO 41, Napton, 65340
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. building
Township. Arrow Rock township
National Register reference number. 78001676 - 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

6,926 words

The chapter on Arrow Rock Township in History of Saline County, Missouri, Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources ... with a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men .., published 1881 names Napton. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Among the many incidents narrated of Blackwater township history, it is said that when Judge W. B. Napton was building his place, "Elk Hill," he directed the carpenters to shingle the rooijrom the "comb " down, and grew indignant because they would not obey him! The judge is one of the most profound lawyers and able jurists that ever sat on a supreme bench, but one of the workmen remarked, " he don't know everything."

Passage source: History of Saline County, Missouri, Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources ... with a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men .., published 1881.

In the eastern portion of the township, according to Mrs. Wood, Gervas Smith, and other pioneers, the early settlers in that portion of Salt Fork were Wyatt Bingham, Gen. Smith, Maj. Milton Wood, P. Thornton, Asa Finlej% Gen. W. B. Miller, Nathan Harris, Col. Wm. Davis, Thos. Gaines, Judge Napton, R. P. Shelby, James H. McAllister, James Hunt, and John B. Dedrich. Some of these settled in what is now Blackwater.

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 Arrow Rock Township - 6,926 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Neff Tavern Smokehouse between 1993 and 2014, burning about 106 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
11 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	83 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 March 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 December 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 January 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Saline 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 Neff Tavern Smokehouse: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Unknown S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Napton, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Napton	-	Broadcast media reported to the NWS a 60 mph wind gust from near Marshall, Missouri.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Napton	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Napton	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Napton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
George A. Murrell House	4.3 miles	1997
William B. Sappington House	5.0 miles	1970
Arrow Rock Tavern	5.7 miles	1972
Arrow Rock State Historic Site Bridge	5.7 miles	1985
Arrow Rock State Historic Site Grave Shelter	5.7 miles	1985
George Caleb Bingham House	5.7 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001676 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saline County	All 26 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.