Possum Walk Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Possum Walk Hotel is a historic hotel building located near Burlington Junction, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was built between 1873 and 1875, and is a two-story, Italianate style "L"-plan brick building.”
Wikipedia article Possum Walk Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Nodaway County · listed in 1983 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Burlington Junction, Burlington Junction, 64428
When was it listed? March 1983
Category. building
Township. Lincoln township
National Register reference number. 83001033 - 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

2,240 words

The chapter on Lincoln Township in Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910 names Burlington Junction. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

This place was platted in January, 1871, by John Lamar, on section 27, township 66, range 37, but with the change of route and the building of Burlington Junction and Elmo it lapsed into decay, some of the buildings being moved to other towns near by.

Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.

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 Lincoln Township - 2,240 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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 Possum Walk Hotel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 54 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/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	190156-07499-03042020-1748
3 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	190113-07499-03032020-1330
14 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	176045-07499-03142018-1912
17 February 2020	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	190112-07499-02172020-1420
11 October 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	51 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	230832-07499-10112020-1351

Every fire recorded in Nodaway County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Possum Walk Hotel: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Nodaway County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 2 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
June 1994	Hail	Burlington Junction	$5,000	Two seperate thunderstorms produced an estimated $10 million in damage to nearly 45,000 acres after large hail fell. The first swath of hail was about 5 miles wide from Burlington Junction to Grahm. The second swath was about a mile wide and 15 miles long. The storm also downed trees and power lines throughout parts of the county. A roof was torn off a nursing home in Maryville with other buildings damaged in Arkoe.
May 1996	Hail	Burlington Junction	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nodaway 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 83001033 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nodaway County	All 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.