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Shobe-Morrison House

Built in 1830 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Shobe-Morrison House is a historic home located near Morrison, Gasconade County, Missouri. The original section was built between about 1828 and 1830, with an addition made about 1840.”

Wikipedia article Shobe-Morrison House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Gasconade County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1830, Federal architecture.

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 Morrison off MO 100, Morrison, 65061
  • When was it listed? February 1983
  • Category. building
  • Township. Richland township
  • When was it built? 1830
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83000990 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Shobe-Morrison House in 2018, burning about 692 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177030-03733-03042018-1535
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined686 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177029-03733-03042018-1837

Every fire recorded in Gasconade County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Shobe-Morrison House: 20 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ruprecht Quarry CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
St. Louis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zumsteg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zumsteg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Gasconade County

Storms near this property

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrison, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMorrison$50,000Numerous trees were blown down and large branches snapped. The winds also damaged several mobile homes, sheds, and roofs. The damage was most concentated in a two mile wide path in the north half of the county from the Gasconade River to Swiss. At the intersection of Old Iron Road and Highway 19, strong winds ripped part of the roof off a house. A school building at the east end of County Road NN also lost part of its roof. Three unanchored mobile homes on County Road NN at the north edge of Swiss were blown into each other. Elsewhere in the county strong winds tore away part of the roof off several sheds in Morrison and bent television antennas.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindMorrison$15,000Widespread wind damage between Morrison and Gasconade. A number of trees were blown down onto Highway 100.
June 2013FloodMorrison$1,000no account filed
December 2015Flash FloodMorrison-Between 5 and 6 inches of rain fell causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including U.S. Highway 50 near Mt. Sterling and Route A in multiple areas between Routes Y and D. Also, Routes W and K were closed due to flash flooding from Second Creek.
June 2015Flash FloodMorrison-Up to 3 inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded through out the county.
July 2010Flash FloodMorrison-Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Stollmeyer Road.
March 2012HailMorrison-no account filed
June 2010FloodMorrison-no account filed
June 2009HailMorrison-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindMorrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gasconade 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kotthoff-Weeks Farm Complex6.4 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000990 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gasconade CountyAll 10 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.