Bennett Spring State Park Shelter House and Water Gauge Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Off MO A64, Bennett Spring, 65536
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. building
Also known as. ECW Architecture in Missouri State Parks 1933-1942 TR
Township. Jasper township
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 85000527 - 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Bennett Spring State Park Shelter House and Water Gauge Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,889 acres in total. None started naturally. 118 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	118
Debris and open burning	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	120 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	32 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 August 1999	Debris and open burning	153 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
3 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bennett Spring State Park Shelter House and Water Gauge Station: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Lead	Past Producer
	Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas 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 85000527 in Record Group 79.
Dallas County	All 1 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.