St. Mary's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Mary's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri located at 104 West Davis Street in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. The Gothic Revival style church structure was built in 1849, and is a small rectangular one-story structure constructed of vertical board and batten on a brick foundation.”
Wikipedia article St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Fayette, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Howard 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. 104 W. Davis St., Fayette, 65248
When was it listed? September 1982
Category. building
Township. Richmond township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 82003139 - 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

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in 1993, burning about 10 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	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
21 May 1993	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of St. Mary's Episcopal Church: 2 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this property

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayette, the town this property stands in, in 58 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 29 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 12 flash flood, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$200,000	Downtown portions of Fayette, reported moderate to severe damage to several buildings, including a church and city hall. Large trees and power lines were also knocked down.
April 2006	Hail	Fayette	$50,000	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$5,000	Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds which downed numerous trees and power lines in Fayette.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$2,000	Numerous trees and power lines down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$2,000	Howard County Sheriff's Office reported a downed pole on the west side of Fayette. There were also several reports of small hail throughout Howard County.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	MPING report of trees down Herndon Street.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Large tree limbs and power wires down across Fayette with power outages. Large tree downed at Highway 124 and 101.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Law enforcement dispatch reported a tree over County Road 209, just north of Fayette.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Water about 6 inches deep was reported on several streets.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Several trees and numerous power lines were down across the entire county from strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Water was observed running across several roads.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	A car was washed off Highway 5 near Fayette.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	A street was reported washed out in Fayette. Also multiple roads were closed due to high water.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	A large tree was reported down on Noland Road. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
April 2010	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Numerous county roads, were closed due to flash flooding.
April 2010	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Route H near Highway O, northeast of Fayette, was closed due to high water over the road.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	Thunderstorm winds blew over a tree on Route E west of Fayette.
March 2007	Flood	Fayette	-	Moniteau Creek near Fayette crested at 16.09 feet, or 0.09 feet above flood stage.
April 2007	Flood	Fayette	-	The Moniteau Creek near Fayette crested at 19.59 feet, or 3.59 feet above flood stage.
February 2007	Flood	Fayette	-	The Moniteau Creek near Fayette crested at 18.55 feet, or 2.55 feet above flood stage.
March 2006	Tornado (F0)	Fayette	-	Tornado observed by spotters to the southwest of Fayette in rural areas.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Several county roads closed due to high water.
November 2006	Flood	Fayette	-	The Moniteau Creek near Fayette crested at 17.39 feet, or 1.39 feet above flood stage.
January 2005	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Route H and Highway 124 flooded due to heavy rains.
January 2005	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Water over road at Highway 5 and County Road 320 due to heavy rains.
March 2004	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Heavy rains caused high water over Highway 5.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Many county road closures due to heavy rains.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Fayette	-	Numerous county roads reported flooded.
May 2003	Hail	Fayette	-	Also a wind gust to 60 mph reported.
May 2001	Hail	Fayette	-	Public reported 13/4 inch hail and wind gusts to 60 mph.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	The sheriff's office reported downed trees.
June 1998	Hail	Fayette	-	Nickel-size hail was reported by an emergency management coordinator during a severe thunderstorm at Fayette.
June 1998	Hail	Fayette	-	The Howard County Emergency Management Director reported dime-size hail during a severe thunderstorm in Fayette.
March 2023	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
January 2008	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dr. Uriel S. Wright Office	under 500 feet	1987
Fayette Courthouse Square Historic District	0.1 miles	1998
Coleman Hall	0.2 miles	1986
South Main Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1999
Fayette Residential Historic District	0.3 miles	2009
Oakwood	0.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003139 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Howard County	All 25 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.