Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“Carroll County Sheriff's Quarters and Jail is a historic combined sheriffs residence and jail located in Carrollton, Carroll County, Missouri. It was built in 1878 and consists of the two-story brick residence with an attached jail, constructed in 1958 to replace the original jail, which had collapsed.”
Wikipedia article Carroll County Sheriff's Quarters and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001355- 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.
Carrollton, the county seat Carroll county, is located on the line of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific railroad, 209 miles north-west of St. Louis, .and 66 miles east of Kansas City. It is located on a high bluff* overlooking the Mirrouri river bottoms, and contains a population of nearly 4,000 souls. Statistics can'be produced showing that her annual trade is far ahead of any towns on the line of the railroad or river, and is constantly increasing. She can boast of more fine, large business houses than any town outside of the metropolis of the state, and probably St. Joseph and Kansas City. She has more large hearted, public spirited citizens, more energy, more git-up and go ahead than half a dozen ordinary county, towns.
The first improvements made in the present limits of the city, was by John Standley, the report of which is found in the history of Carrollton township. The next was by Morgan P. Ellis, on lot 5, block 9, corner of Main and Benton streets, and now occupied by the commodious storehouse of Baum & David. About this time John Trotter put up a log house near where the African M. E. church is located.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Carroll County Sheriff's Quarters and Jail
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 122 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 burning
12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Smoking
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Carroll County Sheriff's Quarters and Jail: 8 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Carrollton, the town this property stands in, in 71 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 37 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado.
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.
Two citizens reported that a tornado touched down briefly in open bottomland, and moved east 1 mile. The tornado lifted after approximately two minutes on the ground, without doing any damage.
A severe thunderstorm produced quarter-size hail in Carrollton. Very heavy rain also fell with the storm as 1.3 inches were measured in 15 minutes at Carrollton.
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
3 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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