Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Bates-Geers House, also known as Geers House, is a historic home located near Plato, Texas County, Missouri. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling with a rear ell.”
Wikipedia article Bates-Geers House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Texas County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003159- 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
65 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Bates-Geers House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,681 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 were 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
Arson/incendiarism
28
Debris and open burning
16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Bates-Geers House: 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin. 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
Plato, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
Six to nine inches of rain fell over Texas County. All areas that experience flooding during periods of excessive rain were flooded. Major damage occurred to county roads and bridges.
Sixty to 85 mph winds impacted most of Texas County. Thousands of trees were damaged along with more than 200 power poles that were destroyed. Nearly 10,000 power outages were estimated by Intercounty Electric. Numerous outbuildings were either damaged or destroyed. In Gladden, recovery crews worked 15 hours straight to remove storm debris along a one mile stretch of a county road. Hundreds of structures in the community of Licking were damaged. A pavillion structure at the Old City Park was completely flattened by a large tree. Several mobile homes at the Green Acres mobile home park were crushed by downed large trees.
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.
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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