Jolly Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Jolly Mill was built on Capps Creek at Jollification, Berwick Township, Newton County, Missouri, United States in 1848 by Thomas Isbell and his son John to serve as a whiskey distillery. Jolly Mill was named for the local Jolly family.”
Wikipedia article Jolly Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Newton 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. SW of Pierce City, Pierce City, 65723
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Township. Berwick township
National Register reference number. 83004021 - 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

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Jolly Mill between 1993 and 2001, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
10 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 March 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Jolly Mill: 15 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. 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
Unknown - Ss	Silica	Past Producer
Unknown - Zinc	Zinc	Past Producer
Allen & Stark Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Zn & Pb	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Pioneer Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Polish Queen Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Red Dog Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead-Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead-Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead-Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Newton 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

3 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
Mathew H. Ritchey House	6.3 miles	1978
First Battle of Newtonia Historic District	6.3 miles	2004
Second Battle of Newtonia Site	6.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83004021 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 13 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.