Kelton House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Kelton House, also known as the Curtis Kelton House and Pyatt House, is a historic home located at Hartville, Wright County, Missouri, United States. It was built about 1895, and incorporates an earlier timber frame central passage plan I-house dated to the mid-1870s.”
Wikipedia article Kelton House (Hartville, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. MO 38 and Church St., Hartville, 65667
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Township. Brush Creek township
National Register reference number. 86002803 - 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Kelton House between 1992 and 2016, burning about 301 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 August 1992	Smoking	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 May 1992	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 2002	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 April 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 1992	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Wright 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 Kelton House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Wilson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this property

60 of 101 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartville, the town this property stands in, in 101 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 35 thunderstorm wind, 27 hail, 20 flash flood, 12 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2012	Lightning	Hartville	2 hurt, $1,000	A mother and her daughter were struck by lightning. The bolt hit the house and traveled through a kitchen outlet. The two women were taken to a local hospital and were later released. No fire was caused by the bolt but some minor damage from the bolt was visible in the kitchen by charring around the outlet.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$3,000,000	no account filed
April 2017	Flash Flood	Hartville	$2,000,000	At least 22 homes and business sustained severe flood damage across Wright County. Numerous roads and bridges were severely damaged or washed away across the county. This report will contain the total dollar estimate for flood damage to infrastructure, businesses, and homes across Wright County.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Hartville	$500,000	Numerous low water crossing on rural roads were reported flooded throughout the county.\|\|The total cost estimate for flooding damages for Wright County for this entire episode has been included. This includes roads, bridges, and structures which were affected.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$500,000	no account filed
March 2006	Tornado (F2)	Hartville	$450,000	This tornado is a continuation of the second Webster County tornado that crossed into Wright County approximately one mile north of Duncan. The tornado continued to produce significant structural damage across rural northwest Wright County. The tornado eventually crossed into Laclede County near the community of Competition. 23 structures were damaged while six structures were completely destroyed.
March 2020	Hail	Hartville	$250,000	A swath of hail from ping pong ball to tennis ball size was reported as a storm moved through Hartville to the east. Numerous vehicles, businesses and residential roofs sustained damage as the storm proceeded from just west of town to the east with the last report of hail occurring near the intersection of Highway 38 and Lawson Road.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Hartville	$100,000	There were numerous low lying areas that were flooded across the county. This storm report will contain the overall storm damage estimates across Wright County for this storm event. Numerous roads, bridges, and low water crossings were heavily damaged.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$50,000	Minor roof damage to a few buildings in the downtown area and power outages were reported.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$40,000	Multiple tree limbs up to 2 inches in diameter were reported down by high winds. Some of the limbs fell on power lines causing power outages. A tent in the park was reported to have blown into the lake at the park.
May 1998	Hail	Hartville	$25,000	Baseball size hail was reported at the junction of Highways F and 5. Damage was reported to cars.
May 2011	Hail	Hartville	$10,000	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$10,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$5,000	A large tree split with half falling on and damaging a gazebo.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$5,000	Several power lines were blown down.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$5,000	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$3,000	no account filed
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$2,000	A semi trailer was blown over along Highway 38.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds blew some roofing off a home.
April 1996	Hail	Hartville	$500	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Hartville	$500	no account filed
June 2025	Flood	Hartville	-	River and creek flooding was reported around Hartville.
August 2024	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	Mesonet station GW4807 in Hartville measured 5.47 inches of storm total rainfall.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Route Z north of Hartville was closed due to flooding.
November 2024	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	The Co-Op observer station HRTM7 in Hartville measured a 2-day rainfall total of 8.69 inches.
March 2020	Flood	Hartville	-	The Gasconade River and Woods Fork were flooding out of their banks.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	Multiple trees were reported down along Highway 5.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	The CoCoRAHS Station MO-FSA-229 reported 2.40 inches of rainfall.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	A few of the country roads around Hartville are impassible due to water over the roadways.
August 2018	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	A storm total of 3.70 inches of rainfall was reported.
April 2017	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	Storm total rainfall of 7.90 inches was measured near Hartville.
July 2016	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.27 inches was reported.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Route F along the Woods Fork of the Gasconade River was flooded and closed.
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	In Hartville, 6.90 inches of rainfall was reported in the last 24 hours.
June 2015	Flood	Hartville	-	Route AB was flooded and closed.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	There were numerous low lying areas flooded across the county.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	There were several low lying areas flooded across Wright County.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	A large tree and several large tree branches were blown down in Hartville.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Highway 38 just east of Hartville was closed due to flooding.
July 2015	Flood	Hartville	-	Highway 38 east of Hartville was flooded and closed at the Lick Fork of the Gasconade River.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Several low water crossings throughout the county were flooded.
May 2013	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	Rainfall of 3.40 inches fell in several hours.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Highway E was closed due to flooding.
August 2013	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	The public reported that the eight inch rain gauge they had was overflowing.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	Several trees were blown down.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	Wind gusts up to 60 mph were estimated.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	A few trees were reported down near the town of Hartville.
October 2009	Heavy Rain	Hartville	-	A total rainfall amount of 3.35 inches was measured.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	A spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
October 2009	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Low water crossings were flooded.
October 2009	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Route E was closed due to flooding.
October 2009	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Water was reported flowing over Highway 5 near Hartville.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	Thunderstorm winds gusts damaged the roof of an outbuilding. There was also a tree knocked over.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	Numerous trees and power poles were knocked down from severe thunderstorm winds gusts.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	Winds estimated at 60 mph were reported with debris strewn about.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over trees in an area near the intersection of Highway Y and Highway 38.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Highway EE along the Gasconade River became impassable from flooding.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Flash flooding inundated a section of Highway V.
April 2005	Flash Flood	Hartville	-	Heavy thunderstorms caused the Woods Fork Tributary of the Gasconade river to flow out of its banks in several locations.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartville	-	Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees countywide.

Every storm recorded in Wright 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 86002803 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wright County	All 5 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.