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Camp Ground Church and Cemetary

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Camp Ground Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery located near Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri. The church was built in 1901, and is a one-story, Classical Revival style rectangular frame building.”

Wikipedia article Camp Ground Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. W of Milan, Milan, 64646
  • When was it listed? September 1985
  • Category. building
  • Township. Bowman township
  • National Register reference number. 85002483 - 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.

Storms near this property

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Milan1 killed, $25,000An EF1 tornado touched down at 1610 CST, about two miles north-northeast of Milan. The tornado proceeded east-northeast, and lifted about three and a half miles south-southeast of Boynton, at 1635 CST. The tornado destroyed a mobile home and killed a female occupant. Numerous trees were uprooted or damaged.
August 2004Flash FloodMilan$100,000Bridge washed out along State Route PP. Several area roads under water. Rainfall was from 6 to 9 inches in this area.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindMilan$40,000Mobile home destroyed and grain bin knocked down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMilan$25,000A roof was reported to have blown off a house, south of Milan on Highway 5. One wall was partially blown down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindMilan$5,000Several large trees were knocked down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMilan$2,000Public reported numerous tree branches down across Milan as well as a swing set toppled over.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Milan$400A brief EF0 tornado touchdown was reported at 21:22 CST, 3 miles southwest of Milan. The tornado lifted at 21:23 CST. A roof was blown off a garage.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMilan-Estimated wind gusts up to 65 mph about 3 miles northwest of Milan.
May 2024HailMilan-Golf ball sized hail was reported about 4 miles northwest of Milan.
May 2024HailMilan-Two inch sized hail was reported in Milan.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMilan-Sullivan County Sheriff's office reported 60 mph winds.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMilan-Amateur radio operator reported 58 mph winds.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMilan-A peak wind of 75.2 mph was recorded by an amateur radio operator. Power was knocked out at their location.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindMilan-There was a reported 60 mph wind gust west of Milan.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMilan-A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMilan-A two inch tree limb was snapped.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMilan-Several large tree limbs were reported snapped in Milan, Missouri.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMilan-Thunderstorm wind gust was measured at 71 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMilan-Thunderstorm wind gust was measured at 71 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMilan-A large tree was reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
July 2010Funnel CloudMilan-A funnel cloud was observed 5 miles southeast of Milan.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMilan-Large trees and limbs were reported down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMilan-Large trees blocking road.
August 2004Flash FloodMilan-Highway 5 and several other rural roads remain closed due to high water.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMilan-Ten inch tree limb knocked down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMilan-Emergency managers reported large trees uprooted between Milan and Humphries.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindMilan-A large tree was downed in a road near Milan
March 2023HailMilan-no account filed
May 2022HailMilan-no account filed
May 2022HailMilan-no account filed
March 2022HailMilan-no account filed
June 2018HailMilan-no account filed
June 2018HailMilan-no account filed
July 2015HailMilan-no account filed
June 2015HailMilan-no account filed
June 2015HailMilan-no account filed
April 2014HailMilan-no account filed
April 2014HailMilan-no account filed
April 2011HailMilan-no account filed
March 2011HailMilan-no account filed
July 2010HailMilan-no account filed
June 2010HailMilan-no account filed
March 2009HailMilan-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
May 2004HailMilan-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
May 2003HailMilan-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
October 2001HailMilan-no account filed
May 1999HailMilan-no account filed
May 1995HailMilan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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

1 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
Henry Cemetery6.8 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002483 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 6 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.
  • 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.