Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory was a historic tobacco factory located at Wentzville, St. It was built in 1885, and was a 2 1/2-story, three bay by six bay brick building with timber framing.”
Wikipedia article Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 40 National Register listings published here for St. Charles County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90001024- 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
10 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
5
Debris and open burning
3
Arson/incendiarism
1
Natural
1
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
15 workings within 5 miles of Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory: 15 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wentzville, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 25 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines in an area from the Stone Meadows Subdivision northeastward towards the GM Plant that is north of I-70 and east of U.S. Highway 61. The width of the damage path was about half a mile to a mile wide. Also, numerous light poles were blown down in parking lots and a couple of small sheds sustained minor to moderate damage. A semi was blown over onto a car on east bound I-70 near the Highway A exit. One person sustained moderate injuries and was taken to a local hospital. In the Stone Meadows Subdivision, one house sustained a large section of siding damage and a house two doors down lost about half of its roof.
Widespread tree damage across St. Charles County. Numerous tree limbs, trees and power lines were blown down in Wentzville, Lake St. Louis, O'Fallon, Saint Peters, Weldon Spring, Cottleville, Harvester, Saint Charles and Orchard Farms. A large wooden fence was blown over in O'Fallon. Also, a large tree was blown onto a house in St. Peters causing moderate roof damage.
Damaging thunderstorm winds moved from north to south across the western portions of St. Charles County. At the intersection of Highway T and Highway D, several power poles were snapped off. A large tree was blown down near the intersection of Lake St. Louis Boulevard and Locksley Manor Drive. A tree and power lines were knocked down near the intersection of Sonderen Street and E. Elm Street. Also, a large tree was blown down on to Highway 94 just northeast of Defiance.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees and numerous tree limbs. In Wentzville, a tree was blown onto a home on Grove Street causing moderate damage. Several large tree limbs were blown down just west southwest of St. Paul and in O'Fallon.
A wide swath of large hail between an inch and 1.5 inches in diameter fell along the I-70 corridor in St. Charles County. Large hail was reported in Flint Hill, Wentzville, Saint Paul, O'Fallon, St. Peters and St. Charles.
Numerous large tree limbs were blown down near the intersection of Highways N and Z, south of Wentzville. Further southeast, a large tree was blown over in O'Fallon and a large section of a 30 foot tree was split off.
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.
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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