Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“William Poeschel House, also known as the Poeschel-Harrison House, is a historic home located near Hermann, Gasconade County, Missouri. It was built about 1869, and is a two-story, ell-shaped, red brick dwelling.”
Wikipedia article William Poeschel House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Gasconade County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90000982- 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
16 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 16 fires within 5 miles of William Poeschel House
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 729 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
10
Debris and open burning
6
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of William Poeschel House: 12 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hermann, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
Between 3 and 5 inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Frene Creek in Hermann rose quickly and came out of its banks next to the city park where dozens of people were camping for the third annual Hermann Cyclocross race. The police and fire department were able to get everyone out of the campground, though two vehicles were flooded as well as numerous tents, bikes and one popup camper that could not be moved quick enough. No injuries were reported.
Thunderstorm winds caused extensive tree damage in Hermann. Several large trees were blown down around town, as well as numerous branches. One tree fell onto the pavilion at the city park damaging it and a large tree limb fell onto the wooden bandstand in the park as well, causing minor damage.
Up to 5 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including streets in Hermann. One mobile home park in town had to be evacuated due to rising flood waters.
Up to 5 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time as the remnants of Hurricane Ike moved through the region causing flooding. Numerous roads were flooded countywide and numerous creeks were well out of their banks due to the heavy rain.
Two large beer garden tents were blown down in Hermann. Also, a large tree was snapped off about 2 feet from the ground in the 400 block of Schiller Street.
Numerous trees were blown down and large branches snapped. The winds also damaged several mobile homes, sheds, and roofs. The damage was most concentated in a two mile wide path in the north half of the county from the Gasconade River to Swiss. At the intersection of Old Iron Road and Highway 19, strong winds ripped part of the roof off a house. A school building at the east end of County Road NN also lost part of its roof. Three unanchored mobile homes on County Road NN at the north edge of Swiss were blown into each other. Elsewhere in the county strong winds tore away part of the roof off several sheds in Morrison and bent television antennas.
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
6 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.
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.
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