Dick-Kobel Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Dick-Kobel Homestead, also known as the William Kobel Property, is a historic home located near Jamestown, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built about 1854, and is a log house constructed of 8 inch by 8 inch hand-hewn horizontal logs.”
Wikipedia article Dick-Kobel Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Cooper 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Jamestown, Jamestown, 65018
When was it listed? September 1982
Category. building
Township. North Moniteau township
National Register reference number. 82003133 - 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Dick-Kobel Homestead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
16 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	230742-06843-06162020-0100
10 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	190096-06841-06102019-1300
14 May 2018	Natural	1.9 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177842-06843-05142018-2053
2 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177837-06843-03022018-1354
6 December 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	190106-06841-12062019-1350

Every fire recorded in Cooper County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Dick-Kobel Homestead: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, 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 - Barite	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dickson Mine	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Tiff Diggings	Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cooper 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003133 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cooper 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.