Louis Bruce Farmstead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Louis Bruce Farmstead Historic District, also known as Rock Enon Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Russellville, Moniteau County, Missouri. The district encompasses six contributing buildings and one contributing structure associated with a late-19th century farmstead.”
Wikipedia article Louis Bruce Farmstead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Moniteau County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Bruce, Louis, Farmstead Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. MO V N of jct. with MO A, at Rock Enon Cr., Russellville, 65074
When was it listed? January 1992
Category. district
Township. Burris Fork township
National Register reference number. 91001916 - 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Louis Bruce Farmstead Historic District between 1993 and 2019, burning about 149 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 1996	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177431-02626-05102018-1155
11 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 March 1993	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
21 March 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 February 1997	Debris and open burning	95 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
25 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.2 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179738-02626-12252019-1626
31 January 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Moniteau County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Louis Bruce Farmstead Historic District: 33 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Iron. 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
Beck Mine	Zinc, Barium-Barite, Lead	Past Producer
High Point Mine	Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead Barite	Barium-Barite, Lead	Past Producer
Unknown-Zn	Zinc	Past Producer
Dougan Pit	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Enloe Pit	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls Dimemsion	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls Dimension	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Moniteau 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	High Point Historic District	4.1 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001916 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Moniteau County	All 10 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.