Clarksville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Clarksville Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksville, Pike County, Missouri. The district encompasses 65 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Clarksville.”
Wikipedia article Clarksville Historic District (Clarksville, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Lewis, Front, Virginia and 3rd Sts., Clarksville, 63336
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. district
Also known as. Clarksville MPS
Township. Calumet township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 91000489 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Clarksville Historic District: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Clifford Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
N392229	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Oakwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarksville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines as well as trees. The trees were blown down onto Highway W on south side of Clarksville.
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Clarksville	-	The tornado touched down in the south side of Clarksville, damaging trees, removing shingles from several homes, and damaging fencing and several carports in the area. Several windows on the east side of the Catholic Church were also broken. Witnesses report that after the tornado exited Clarksville the funnel began to cross the Mississippi River, but dissipated before crossing into Calhoun County, Illinois. Total length of this tornado was 0.4 miles, with a maximum width of about 50 yards. The damage in this area was rated EF0, with winds of 70 to 75 mph.
August 2007	Flood	Clarksville	-	Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. At Clarksville and Louisiana, the river peaked about 2 feet over flood stage and was still in flood when the month ended.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	Amateur radio spotters reported trees down on Highway 79 north of Clarksville.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarksville	-	A construction crane at Lock and Dam 24 was blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts. A shed and fence were also damaged when the crane fell.
April 2011	Hail	Clarksville	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Clarksville	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Clarksville	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Clarksville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Clifford-Wyrick House	under 500 feet	1984
Turner-Pharr House	0.1 miles	1991
Northern Methodist Episcopal Church of Clarksville	0.2 miles	1991
Lock and Dam No. 24 Historic District	0.7 miles	2004
Griffith-McCune Farmstead Historic District	6.6 miles	1992
Cummins & Co. Meloan General Store	7.4 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000489 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pike County	All 21 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.
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.