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Gen. David Thomson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“David Thomson House, also known as Elm Spring, is a historic home located near Hughesville, Pettis County, Missouri. It was built in 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style brick I-house.”

Wikipedia article Gen. David Thomson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Pettis County · listed in 1982 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Thomson, Gen. David, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. S of Hughesville on SR H, Hughesville, 65334
  • When was it listed? October 1982
  • Category. building
  • Township. Cedar township
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82000588 - 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

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Gen. David Thomson House: 21 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite. 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
Bothwell Barite MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Bradford Quarry No 2 & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dresden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dresden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Eckles QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Main Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rader QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rymer Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Steele QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pettis County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hughesville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2008Tornado (EF0)Hughesville$5,000A brief EF0 tornado was reported at 1644CST, near the intersection of Highway 65 and County Roads J and D. Minor damage was reported to one home.
April 1993HailHughesville$5,000One-inch-diameter hail was reported by the Pettis County EOC. Storm spotters also reported golf ball-size hail.
April 2023HailHughesville-EM reported ping pong ball sized hail near Hughesville.
August 2015HailHughesville-This report came from mPing.
May 2013Flash FloodHughesville-Several feet of water was reported over the road, near the intersection of Highway D and McGruder Road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHughesville-8 inch diameter tree broken off.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHughesville-Large tree down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindHughesville-Thunderstorm winds downed 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs and caused damage at a construction site.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindHughesville-Severe thunderstorm winds blew down an old barn at Hughesville.
April 2023HailHughesville-no account filed
April 2022HailHughesville-no account filed
March 2015HailHughesville-no account filed
April 2014HailHughesville-no account filed
April 2014HailHughesville-no account filed
July 2014HailHughesville-no account filed
July 2014HailHughesville-no account filed
April 2005HailHughesville-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHughesville-no account filed
September 2005HailHughesville-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHughesville-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHughesville-no account filed
July 2003HailHughesville-no account filed
April 2001HailHughesville-no account filed
September 2001HailHughesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pettis 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
William H. Gentry House2.7 miles1997
Osage Farms Unit No. 314.8 miles1991
Osage Farms Unit No. 30 Historic District4.8 miles1991
G and G Veterinary Hospital5.1 miles2011
C.C. Hubbard High School5.1 miles1997
Thomas and Mildred Yount House5.1 miles2022

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000588 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pettis CountyAll 29 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.