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One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Zephaniah Sappington House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Sappington, Zephaniah, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. S of Crestwood at 11145 Gravois Rd., Crestwood, 63126
- When was it listed? September 1980
- Category. building
- Township. Gravois township
- National Register reference number. 80004384 - 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
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Zephaniah Sappington House between 2007 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 24 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Zephaniah Sappington House: 23 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Portland Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Big Bend Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Grant Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lemay Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mutual Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Osage Hills Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Steffern Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crestwood, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | $25,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down a large cottonwood tree which fell on the roof of a home on Tahiti Drive in Crestwood. The tree punched a hole in the roof and also took down power lines. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | Several windows were blown out on a local supermarket. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | Amateur radio spotters reported trees down. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Crestwood | - | Amateur radio spotters reported 3/4 inch hail at Lindbergh and Sappington roads. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Crestwood | - | Storm spotters reported nickel size hail in the Concord Village area. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Crestwood | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| February 1999 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Long Log House | 0.4 miles | 1978 | |
 | Joseph Sappington House | 0.7 miles | 1982 |
| #1 Fairway | 1.2 miles | 2024 | |
 | Thomas J. Sappington House | 1.8 miles | 1974 |
 | Father Dickson Cemetery | 1.9 miles | 2021 |
 | Hawken House | 2.2 miles | 1970 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80004384 in Record Group 79. |
| St. Louis County | All 663 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.
- 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.