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Albany Carnegie Public Library

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Carnegie Library of Albany is a Carnegie library in Albany, Missouri, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Carnegie Library of Albany (Albany, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Gentry County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1906, by Edmond Jacques Eckel.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 101 W. Clay St., Albany, 64402
When was it listed? February 1990
Category. building
Township. Athens township
When was it built? 1906
Architect. Edmond Jacques Eckel
National Register reference number. 90000130 - 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

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Albany Carnegie Public Library in 1992, burning about 5 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/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	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
4 June 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 March 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 February 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 February 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Gentry County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Albany Carnegie Public Library: 12 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Raid Quarries Div Medusa Agg Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Gentry County

Storms near this property

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albany, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 23 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2004	Hail	Albany	$5,600,000	Windshield damage to cars. Roofs on many houses and businesses had shingle damage...along with broken windows
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	$5,000	Barn destroyed also many large trees down and corn fields flattened.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	$5,000	Severe Thunderstorms produced damaging winds north of Albany, causing light damage to a few buildings. Another line of storms later produced 60 mph winds as it passed.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	$4,000	Thunderstorms produced winds gusts up to 60 mph as they moved through Gentry County. There were several reports of downed trees and powerlines. In Albany there was also a report of minor flash flooding.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	$1,000	A machine shed was severely damaged, in thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph. Some of the debris was carried a half mile downwind.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	$1,000	Few power lines were reported down.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	$1,000	Trees and power lines downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	$1,000	Power poles and lines downed.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	$250	Trees were reported down and a pontoon boat was thrown into a road. Power outages were reported in the town of Albany. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
May 2025	Hail	Albany	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported near Albany.
May 2025	Hail	Albany	-	Quarter sized hail reported in Albany.
May 2025	Hail	Albany	-	Social media report of hail slightly larger than golf balls east of Albany.
June 2025	Heavy Rain	Albany	-	Two day Cocorahs rainfall report near Albany of 8.72 inches of rain.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	Trees down on top of powerlines and transformer blown in Albany. Estimated wind gusts of 65 mph.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	Estimated 80 mph winds. Multiple trees and power lines downed across Albany.
May 2023	Hail	Albany	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported in Albany.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	A large tree was blocking the road on Henley St in Albany.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	A very large tree was reported to have been blown over.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Albany	-	Several roads closed due to high water.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	12 to 14 inch trees down.
April 2003	Tornado (F0)	Albany	-	Tornado touched down in open country 12 miles northeast of Albany near the Harrison county line.It then moved northeast into Harrison county. Viewed by storm chaser and videotaped.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	Law enforcement officials reported power lines, power poles, and 6-8 inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	Severe Thunderstorms produced damaging winds north of Albany, causing light damage to a few buildings. Another line of storms later produced 60 mph winds as it passed.
March 2022	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Albany	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Albany	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gentry 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

2 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
	Samuel and Pauline Peery House	0.6 miles	2005
	Gentry County Courthouse	3.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000130 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gentry County	All 4 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.