Dr. James Compton House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“James Compton House, also known as the Sandy's Oak Ridge Manor Tea House , is a historic home located at Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri. The original section was built about 1829, as a log dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Dr. James Compton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Clay 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Compton, Dr. James, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5410 NE Oak Ridge Rd., Kansas City, 64119
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. building
Township. Chouteau township
National Register reference number. 79003677 - 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

23 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Dr. James Compton House between 2007 and 2018, burning about 11 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/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Dr. James Compton House: 30 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Holliday Sand & Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Randolph Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown-S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Atkins-Johnson Farmhouse Property	1.5 miles	2007
Antioch Christian Church	2.2 miles	1979
Woodneath	4.6 miles	1978
Sears, Roebuck and Company Warehouse Building	4.9 miles	1997
Armour Theatre Building	5.0 miles	2008
Wheeling Corrugating Company Building	5.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003677 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 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.