Caledonia Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Caledonia Historic District is a national historic district located at Caledonia, Washington County, Missouri. It encompasses 33 in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Caledonia.”
Wikipedia article Caledonia Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Patrick, College, and Alexander Sts., and MO 21, Caledonia, 63631
When was it listed? October 1986
Category. district
Township. Bellevue township
National Register reference number. 86003389 - 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Caledonia Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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 June 1998	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	155 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	LAREDO
8 April 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	220575-11040-04282020-1735
26 April 2000	Smoking	20 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	PRUITT MOUNTAIN
12 April 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 March 2018	Debris and open burning	29 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	176319-09401-03042018-1541
3 March 1992	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Caledonia Historic District: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron, Flagstone, Lead, Silver, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Peach Orchard Diggings	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence	Galena, Smithsonite
Unknown-Ss	Flagstone	Past Producer
Adams Property	Iron	Past Producer
Nicholson Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown-Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Dry Fork Diggings	Lead	Past Producer
Eversole Mine	Lead	Past Producer
Guignon Lagiaue Mine	Lead	Past Producer
Swallow Mine	Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caledonia, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	$500,000	Strong winds tore the roofs off a laundromat and feed store along Highways 21 and 32. Union Electric had to clear pieces of sheet metal and building material from overhead power lines. Trees were also uprooted or blown down through out the community. Many of the trees fell on buildings or cars causing further damage.
March 2025	Hail	Caledonia	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Caledonia. Some hailstones may have been slightly larger than quarters.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Caledonia	-	The Dent Branch of the Big River was reportedly swiftly running over Highway C where a bridge crosses the road. Rainfall totals through the event were on the order of 2.5 to 4.3 inches.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down two large trees in town.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	A trained spotter reported that his personal weather station recorded an unofficial wind gust of 85 mph at 346 am as the storms moved through. There were numerous trees blown down along Highway 21 south of Caledonia, as well as along Highway 32 east of town. Just west northwest of Irondale, several trees were blown down along State Highway U near Hunt Lane.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	Thunderstorm winds snapped off a power pole in Caledonia.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree. It fell onto nearby power lines, pulling them down as well.
July 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Caledonia	-	A tornado briefly touched down north of Caledonia in a wooded area. It was captured on video by two different trained spotters. Tree debris could be seen in the air once it touched down. No other damage was found or reported. It was rated EF0 with a max path length of approximately two tenths of a mile and an estimated path width of 100 yards.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several tree limbs just north of Caledonia onto Highway 21.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	Several large trees were blown over onto Route C near Highway 21.
April 2002	Tornado (F1)	Caledonia	-	A tornado formed in southeast Washington County just south of Caledonia. The tornado formed in a wooded area them moved east to a home near Highway 21 and Buford Farm Road. An unoccupied mobile home was destroyed and several vehicles were severely damaged.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	County sheriff reported trees down on county road 627.
April 2026	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed
April 2024	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Caledonia	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Caledonia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Harrison Queen House	1.9 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003389 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington 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.