Locust Hill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Locust Hill, also known as the McGruder Estate, is a historic home located near Brunswick, Chariton County, Missouri. The original section was built about 1860 and enlarged about 1880.”
Wikipedia article Locust Hill (Brunswick, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Chariton County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Brunswick on SR Y, Brunswick, 65236
When was it listed? January 1980
Category. building
Township. Brunswick township
National Register reference number. 80002349 - 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.

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 Locust Hill: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Brunswick Sand Dredge & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Unknown - Clay	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brunswick, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 15 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1994	Hail	Brunswick	$50,000	Large hail fell in an area seven miles wide and 15 miles long across the county in what some local residents claimed was the worst hail storm in 18 years. Farm vehicles and cars were heavily damaged with several roofs damaged beyond repair. High wind with the hail shattered windows, including 19 windows to one home alone, and destroyed thousands of acres of crops, leaving some fields completely wiped clean. A survey by the county's agricultural office indicated that 60,000 acres of crops were damaged overall with 40,000 completely destroyed. Several grain bins were also damaged.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Brunswick	$50,000	Large hail fell in an area seven miles wide and 15 miles long across the county in what some local residents claimed was the worst hail storm in 18 years. Farm vehicles and cars were heavily damaged with several roofs damaged beyond repair. High wind with the hail shattered windows, including 19 windows to one home alone, and destroyed thousands of acres of crops, leaving some fields completely wiped clean. A survey by the county's agricultural office indicated that 60,000 acres of crops were damaged overall with 40,000 completely destroyed. Several grain bins were also damaged.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brunswick	-	Large tree limbs downed in Brunswick.
June 2019	Flood	Brunswick	-	Heavy spring rains caused ongoing flooding along the Missouri River to Continue through the month. Some locations along the Missouri River experienced major flooding at times during the month. Damage estimates from roads washed out and crop damage are unknown at this time.
May 2019	Flood	Brunswick	-	Heavy spring rains caused ongoing flooding along the Missouri River to Continue through the month. Some locations along the Missouri River experienced major flooding at times during the month. Damage estimates from roads washed out and crop damage are unknown at this time.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Brunswick	-	A large tree was down across Highway 24 in Brunswick.
March 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Brunswick	-	Several outbuildings and trees were damaged or destroyed as a tornado embedded within a QLCS did mainly damage to rural areas of Chariton County.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Brunswick	-	A Mesonet station recorded a 72 mph wind gust.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Brunswick	-	Several trees about a foot in diameter were reported blown down, as well as numerous tree limbs. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
December 2008	Flood	Brunswick	-	The Grand River at Brunswick crested at 19.00 feet, or right at flood stage.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Brunswick	-	Tree reported down near Highway 24.
December 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brunswick	-	Trees reported down by the public.
May 1998	Hail	Brunswick	-	The Brunswick Fire Department reported dime-size hail in Brunswick.
June 1997	Flood	Brunswick	-	Up to 3.5 inches of rain fell during thunderstorms. This rainfall resulted in a 4 to 5 inch build up of water on a roadway one to two miles south of Route 24. The road flooding occurred 4 miles southeast of Brunswick.
April 1994	Hail	Brunswick	-	The Brunswick Police Department reported large hail.
April 2013	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brunswick	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Brunswick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Dalton Vocational School Historic District	6.7 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002349 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chariton County	All 7 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.
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.