BlockFrom the record
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 Unit No. 25 Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Houston Rd. near jct. with Montgomery Rd., Hughesville, 65333
- When was it listed? September 1991
- Category. district
- Also known as. Osage Farms Resettlement Properties in Pettis County MPS
- Township. Longwood township
- National Register reference number. 91001405 - 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.
The ground it stands on
7,400 wordsThe chapter on Longwood Township in The History of Pettis County, Missouri, Including an Authentic History of Sedalia, Other Towns and Townships, Together with ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1882 names Hughesville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Farmer. Post-office, Hughesville. The subject of this sketch is a native of the Banner State, Ohio, and was born in 1845, and when he was about six years of age , moved with his parents to Allen County, Ind., where he was developed to manhood. He was married in 1870, to Miss Rebecca Stirlen, daughter of W, C. Stirlen, a prominent farmer of this county, who died Jan. 14, 1882. This union has been blessed with two children, one boy and one girl, 'Elizabeth and David. In 1872 he emigrated to Missouri, locating in St. Charles county, where he remained one year, then moved to his present location, where he owns a fine farm of 185 acres of fine land, and good improvements on the same. He is a much honored and esteemed citizen.
Passage source: The History of Pettis County, Missouri, Including an Authentic History of Sedalia, Other Towns and Townships, Together with ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1882.
Post-office, Hughesville. Farmer and stock raiser. The subject of this sketch is a native of Nelson County, Ky. He was there educated and raised to majority. His father, Joseph B., was a native of Kentucky, and a prominent farmer in that State. The subject of this sketch came to Pettis County, Mo., in 1869, and in 1871 he bought his present farm of 120 acres of first-class land. In 1881 he gave two acres of land to build the M. E. Church, which was erected in the same year. He is a devoted member of the same. He now deals in cattle and sheep mostly. He goes southwest and purchases stock and brings them to the county and sells them to men who feed stock.
Passage source: The History of Pettis County, Missouri, Including an Authentic History of Sedalia, Other Towns and Townships, Together with ... Biographical Sketches .., published 1882.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Longwood Township - 7,400 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Osage Farms Unit No. 25 Historic District in 2018, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176178-80001-01312018-1306 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Osage Farms Unit No. 25 Historic District: 2 past producers. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hughesville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 15 hail, 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Hughesville | $5,000 | A brief EF0 tornado was reported at 1644CST, near the intersection of Highway 65 and County Roads J and D. Minor damage was reported to one home. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Hughesville | $5,000 | One-inch-diameter hail was reported by the Pettis County EOC. Storm spotters also reported golf ball-size hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Hughesville | - | EM reported ping pong ball sized hail near Hughesville. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Hughesville | - | This report came from mPing. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Hughesville | - | Several feet of water was reported over the road, near the intersection of Highway D and McGruder Road. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughesville | - | 8 inch diameter tree broken off. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughesville | - | Large tree down. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughesville | - | Thunderstorm winds downed 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs and caused damage at a construction site. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughesville | - | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down an old barn at Hughesville. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Hughesville | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Hughesville | - | 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 Units No. 5 and No. 6 Historic District | 1.7 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Unit No. 26 Historic District | 2.5 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Unit No. 1 Historic District | 2.7 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Unit No. 30 Historic District | 2.9 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Unit No. 31 | 2.9 miles | 1991 | |
| Osage Farms Unit No. 43 Historic District | 4.7 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91001405 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.
- 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.