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Levi Morrill Post

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead, also known as Uncle Ike's Post Office, is a historic post office located at Notch, Stone County, Missouri. The property includes five contributing buildings dated between 1893 and 1926.”

Wikipedia article Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1979 · 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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Morrill, Levi, Post - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SE of Reeds Spring, Reeds Spring, 65737
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. building
  • Township. Ruth C township
  • National Register reference number. 79001397 - 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.

Fires near this property

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Levi Morrill Post between 1992 and 2020, burning about 287 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
12 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 July 2018Natural6.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177405-10601-07192018-1905
7 June 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 June 2018Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177232-10601-06302018-2210
25 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation137851-10601-06252016-1730
18 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation138031-10601-06182016-1559

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Levi Morrill Post: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc. 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
Unknown - Lead - ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Mason QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ozark Concrete Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Reed Springs Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Table Rock Quarry # 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Table Rock Quarry # 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stone 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001397 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone CountyAll 3 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.