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Photograph of Atchison County Memorial Building
Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Atchison County Memorial Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Atchison County Memorial Building is a historic building located at Rock Port, Atchison County, Missouri. It was built in 1919, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style reinforced concrete building on a raised basement.”

Wikipedia article Atchison County Memorial Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Atchison County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 417 S. Main St., Rock Port, 64482
  • When was it listed? December 1987
  • Category. building
  • Township. Clay township
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • Architect. James Oliver Hogg
  • National Register reference number. 87001578 - 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

7 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Atchison County Memorial Building in 2020, burning about 10 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/undetermined7

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230706-00310-08262020-1128
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190401-00307-04082020-1511
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230704-00310-04072020-1645
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230703-00310-03082020-1645
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230702-00310-03062020-1443
7 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230699-00310-01072020-1413
3 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230698-00310-01032020-1604

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Atchison County Memorial Building: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Atchison 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

5 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
John Dickinson Dopf Mansion0.2 miles1984
Thompson-Campbell Farmstead5.1 miles2003
Rankin Hall6.8 miles2010
Mule Barn Theatre6.9 miles1970
Walnut Inn7.9 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001578 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Atchison CountyAll 7 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.