Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Gray-Wood Buildings, also known as the Inglish, Kay & Cartwright Office Building and White Residence & Gallery, are four contiguous two-story commercial buildings located at California, Moniteau County, Missouri. They were built in 1869, and consist of a complex of four storefronts, constructed of brick with a stone foundation and a flat roof.”
Wikipedia article Gray-Wood Buildings, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Moniteau County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84002594- 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
15 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Gray-Wood Buildings
between 1999 and 2019, burning about 39 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
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
35 workings within 5 miles of Gray-Wood Buildings: 34 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Barium-Barite, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
California, the town this property stands in, in 69 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 37 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including U.S. Highway 50 just west of California and Highway O just north of California. One foot of water was flowing over Parkview Drive in California.
Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines and caused some structural damage. A grocery store, the newspaper office, a fire station and California City Hall all suffered roof damage from the wind gusts. A 20 foot section of the City Hall roof was blown off resulting in considerable water damage inside.
A small, brief tornado formed near California. A couple of storm spotters observed the brief tornado north of California. The tornado formed over open farmland, kicked up some dirt and dissipated. This was the first of 6 tornadoes that a High Precipitation Supercell produced in the National Weather Service St. Louis County Warning Area.
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
4 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.
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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