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James B. Brown House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Brown House, also known as Stonecroft Manor, is a historic home located near Hannibal, Ralls County, Missouri. It was built between 1870 and 1872, and is a two-story, five-bay, rubble limestone I-house with a central passage plan.”

Wikipedia article James B. Brown House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Ralls County · listed in 1984 · 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.
  • Listed as. Brown, James B., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 2400 Carrs Lane, Hannibal, 63401
  • When was it listed? January 1984
  • Category. building
  • Township. Clay township
  • National Register reference number. 84002603 - 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of James B. Brown House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179720-06417-07252019-1010
16 July 1997Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177318-06417-05052018-1413
8 April 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177319-06417-04202018-1619
8 March 2020Fireworks60 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190315-06417-03082020-1635
7 March 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190478-06417-03072020-1155

Every fire recorded in Ralls County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of James B. Brown House: 21 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone, Clay. 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
Hannibal Plant - Shale PitClayProducer
Missouri GeodesGemstoneProducer1967
Bleigh Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gen Stewart S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Poage PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Al Plant - Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Burlington MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Central Stone Co. Quarry #6Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fullgrat QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Odell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ralls 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

5 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
John Garth House1.5 miles1977
Ilasco Historic District3.8 miles2016
Ralls County Courthouse and Jail-Sheriff's House5.9 miles1972
Saverton School6.4 miles1998
Lock and Dam No. 22 Historic District7.3 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002603 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ralls CountyAll 9 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.