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Photograph of Antioch Christian Church
Photograph by Bob Simrak, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Antioch Christian Church

Built in 1859. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Antioch Christian Church is a historic church located at 4805 NE Antioch Road in Kansas City, Missouri. It was built in 1859, and is a one-story, frame building sheathed in clapboard siding.”

Wikipedia article Antioch Christian Church (Kansas City, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1859.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4805 NE Antioch Rd., Kansas City, 64119
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. building
  • Township. Gallatin township
  • When was it built? 1859
  • National Register reference number. 79001358 - 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 Gallatin township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri;, published 1885 - Gallatin Township

Chapter Viii The Mexican War

Army of the West - Platte and Cole Infantry Battalion - Departure of the Expedition - Arrival of Kearney in Santa Fe - Col. Sterling Price - Capt. Morin's Platte County Company - Names of Members - The Ortiz Insurrection - Murder of Gov. Bent and Others - Battle of La Canada - Ambuscade at El Embudo - Storming and Capture of Fort Pueblo de Taos - Other Battles - Massacre and Subsequent Battle at Moro - Engagement at Cienega - The Return Home - Capt.

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The ground it stands on

1,398 words

This property stands in Gallatin Township. History of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri;, published 1885 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers boundary and physical features, villages in this township, barry, harlem, moscow, arnold's station.

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 Gallatin Township - 1,398 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

39 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Antioch Christian Church between 2007 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. None 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/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Antioch Christian Church: 34 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. 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
Lite Weight Products Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Unknown-Ls and ShaleClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holliday Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Randolph DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dr. James Compton House2.2 miles1979
Atkins-Johnson Farmhouse Property2.4 miles2007
Armour Theatre Building3.0 miles2008
Sears, Roebuck and Company Warehouse Building3.0 miles1997
Wheeling Corrugating Company Building3.5 miles1994
Woodneath6.6 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001358 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay CountyAll 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.