Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Joseph Sappington House is a building on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) that was built around 1816. It was built for Joseph Sappington, a relative of John Sappington who was a prominent figure in early St.”
Wikipedia article Joseph Sappington House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82000589- 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 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Joseph 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
25 workings within 5 miles of Joseph Sappington House: 24 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Affton, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 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.
Between 3 and 6 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time over portions of southeastern St. Louis County. Several roads were flooded in Affton, Crestwood, Shrewsbury, and Oakville. Both directions of I-55 was briefly flooded near the Bayless Avenue exit. Also, the parking lot at Cedar Creek Lodge Apartments was flooded with several feet of water from the nearby creek. At least a dozen cars were flooded in the parking lot.
Very heavy rain fell in a short amount of time over St. Louis County. In Affton, Grant Road in Grantwood Village, between Gravois Road and Pardee Road, was briefly closed due to fast rising water from the creek along Grant Road.
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.
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.
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