Nichols Farm District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Nichols Farm District, also known as the Susie Nichols Cabin site, is a historic farm and national historic district located near Cedar Grove, Dent County, Missouri. The district encompasses a house, barn, corn crib, associated landscape features, and refuse dump.”
Wikipedia article Nichols Farm District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Dent County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. W of Co. Rd. V, N of Current River, Cedar Grove, 65560
When was it listed? December 1989
Category. district
Township. Current township
National Register reference number. 89002129 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Nichols Farm District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,010 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
18 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ozark National Scenic River	CEDAR GROVE HAYBALES
4 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ozark National Scenic River	WELCH
17 July 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ozark National Scenic River	MAGGARDHAY
1 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ozark National Scenic River	BIGCREEK
1 May 1997	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 April 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	20 acres	Ozark National Scenic River	PARKER WF

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Nichols Farm District: 10 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Montauk Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Shafer Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Slater Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Sligo Bank	Iron	Occurrence
Sligo Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Sligo Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Prospect
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dent 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lower Parker School	0.2 miles	1991
Old Mill at Montauk State Park	3.5 miles	1985
Dam and Spillway in the Hatchery Area at Montauk State Park	3.6 miles	1985
Montauk State Park Open Shelter	3.7 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002129 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dent County	All 8 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.