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One of 29 National Register listings published here for Pettis County · listed in 1991 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Osage Farms Units No. 8 and No. 9 Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. MO D near jct. with MO T, Houstonia, 65337
- When was it listed? September 1991
- Category. district
- Also known as. Osage Farms Resettlement Properties in Pettis County MPS
- Township. Houstonia township
- National Register reference number. 91001400 - 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
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Osage Farms Units No. 8 and No. 9 Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steele Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
12 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Houstonia, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 6 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Houstonia | $300,000 | Tornado crossed into Pettis county near the intersection of F/BB/NN Highways. Two homes were damaged along Blackwater Chapel Road. Trees and power lines also down. Tornado then tracked northeast to Highway 127 just south of NN...where a shed was destroyed and grain bins damaged. Tornado proceeded to enter Saline county just west of K Highway. |
| February 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Houstonia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Houstonia | - | Route T near Heaths Creek was flooding due to heavy rain. |
| March 2006 | Tornado (F2) | Houstonia | - | Tornado touched down at 2007CST...5 miles west-northwest of Houstonia and moved into Saline county 3 miles west-northwest of Houstonia at 2009 CST. Tornado was over rural areas with no significant damage noted. |
| March 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Houstonia | - | F0 tornado entered Pettis county from Johnson county at 2002 CST...8 miles southwest of Houstonia. The tornado was over rural areas before lifting at 2004 CST...6 miles west-southwest of Houstonia. |
| April 2001 | Flash Flood | Houstonia | - | Law enforcement reported flooded roads in Houstonia. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Houstonia | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Houstonia | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Houstonia | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Houstonia | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Houstonia | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Houstonia | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osage Farms Unit No. 41 | 0.9 miles | 1991 | |
| Hillview Cooperative Dairy Farm Historic District | 2.4 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Units No. 5 and No. 6 Historic District | 5.4 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Unit No. 31 | 5.4 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Unit No. 30 Historic District | 5.5 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Unit No. 25 Historic District | 5.8 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91001400 in Record Group 79. |
| Pettis County | All 29 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.