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One of 663 National Register listings published here for St. Louis County · listed in 1985 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dr. Edmund A. Babler Memorial State Park Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- Address. NW of Grover, Grover, 63005
- When was it listed? February 1985
- Category. district
- Also known as. ECW Architecture in Missouri State Parks 1933-1942 TR
- Township. Chesterfield township
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 85000539 - 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
6 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Edmund A. Babler Memorial State Park Historic District between 2011 and 2020, burning about 4 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 241105-09222-04082020-1900 |
| 3 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 135284-09222-04032016-2229 |
| 15 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 135208-09222-03152016-1835 |
| 31 December 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 143232-09222-12312016-1455 |
| 12 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 130470-09222-11122015-2322 |
| 5 January 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Dr. Edmund A. Babler Memorial State Park Historic District: 12 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Etherington Clay Bank | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Hamburg Squarry | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Brown Bank | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| King Land | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Babler State Park Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Old Glenco Lime Company Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this property
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grover, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted large trees on the reporting party's property and caused large tree branches to snap. These tree branches appeared to have fallen on a second story deck causing it to collapse. A large tree also fell on the home's roof causing its brick chimney to crumble. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines near the intersection of Highway 109 and Clayton Road. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grover | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs as well as a tree which fell onto Highway 100 just east of Wildwood. Several power poles were broken. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Grover | - | Numerous reports were received of 0.75 to 1-inch-diameter hail from the public and weather spotters. Hail up to three inches in diameter fell over other sections of western St. Louis County damaging hundreds of cars and windows. The worst damage was near Chesterfield Mall where parked cars were dented severely or had broken windows. Hail stones of two to three inches fell for an estimated 10 minutes causing nearly a million dollars in damage. |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ball-Essen Farmstead Historic District | 1.0 miles | 2001 | |
| Orrville Historic District | 2.0 miles | 2003 | |
 | Big Chief Restaurant | 3.2 miles | 2003 |
 | Pond School | 3.7 miles | 2012 |
 | Kreienkamp Store | 3.8 miles | 2000 |
 | Farmers State Bank of Chesterfield | 6.6 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85000539 in Record Group 79. |
| St. Louis County | All 663 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.