Prairie View

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Prairie View, also known as the Betteridge Property and Crestmead, is a historic plantation house located at Pleasant Green, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built in 1859 by John Taylor, and is a two-story, Italianate/Greek Revival style frame dwelling with a rear ell.”
Wikipedia article Prairie View (Pleasant Green, Missouri), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Pleasant Green off MO 135, Pleasant Green, 65276
When was it listed? September 1982
Category. building
Township. Clear Creek township
National Register reference number. 82003134 - 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.

The ground it stands on

682 words

This property stands in Clear Creek Township. A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Clear Creek Township - 682 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Prairie View between 2002 and 2018, burning about 24 acres 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	2

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
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 February 2018	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	178236-06845-02142018-1525

Every fire recorded in Cooper County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Prairie View: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Leonard Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Sweeny Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cooper County

Storms near this property

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Green, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Green	-	Several trees were down near Clifton City. The damage associated with this wind continues well into Cooper County, toward Booneville, but the wind further along this path is associated with a confirmed tornado.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Green	-	Several trees were down near Clifton City. Also, a grain bin was moved by these strong straight line winds. Damage continued toward HWY 5 and Mile Corner Road, but this damage was associated with an embedded tornado within the squall line.
May 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Pleasant Green	-	At 1204CST a brief EF0 tornado touchdown was observed 4.4 miles northwest of Pleasant Green. The tornado touched down and then went right back up. No damage was observed.
April 2014	Hail	Pleasant Green	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
New Lebanon Historic District	1.4 miles	1998
New Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church and School	2.0 miles	1979
Mount Nebo Baptist Church	2.3 miles	1986
Pleasant Green	3.1 miles	1977
Ravenswood	5.4 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003134 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.
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.