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Photograph of Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad Office Building
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad Office Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad Office Building, also known as the O.K. Building and Sullivan County Courthouse, is a historic office building located at Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri.”

Wikipedia article Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad Office Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 117 N. Water St., Milan, 63556
  • When was it listed? January 1992
  • Category. building
  • Township. Polk township
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 91001917 - 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad Office Building in 2011, burning about 3 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 March 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad Office Building: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Colonial Limestone Co.Qry No2/MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cowgill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Montgomery QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Milan1 killed, $25,000An EF1 tornado touched down at 1610 CST, about two miles north-northeast of Milan. The tornado proceeded east-northeast, and lifted about three and a half miles south-southeast of Boynton, at 1635 CST. The tornado destroyed a mobile home and killed a female occupant. Numerous trees were uprooted or damaged.
August 2004Flash FloodMilan$100,000Bridge washed out along State Route PP. Several area roads under water. Rainfall was from 6 to 9 inches in this area.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindMilan$40,000Mobile home destroyed and grain bin knocked down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMilan$25,000A roof was reported to have blown off a house, south of Milan on Highway 5. One wall was partially blown down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindMilan$5,000Several large trees were knocked down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMilan$2,000Public reported numerous tree branches down across Milan as well as a swing set toppled over.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Milan$400A brief EF0 tornado touchdown was reported at 21:22 CST, 3 miles southwest of Milan. The tornado lifted at 21:23 CST. A roof was blown off a garage.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMilan-Estimated wind gusts up to 65 mph about 3 miles northwest of Milan.
May 2024HailMilan-Golf ball sized hail was reported about 4 miles northwest of Milan.
May 2024HailMilan-Two inch sized hail was reported in Milan.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMilan-Sullivan County Sheriff's office reported 60 mph winds.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMilan-Amateur radio operator reported 58 mph winds.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMilan-A peak wind of 75.2 mph was recorded by an amateur radio operator. Power was knocked out at their location.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindMilan-There was a reported 60 mph wind gust west of Milan.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMilan-A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMilan-A two inch tree limb was snapped.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMilan-Several large tree limbs were reported snapped in Milan, Missouri.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMilan-Thunderstorm wind gust was measured at 71 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMilan-Thunderstorm wind gust was measured at 71 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMilan-A large tree was reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
July 2010Funnel CloudMilan-A funnel cloud was observed 5 miles southeast of Milan.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMilan-Large trees and limbs were reported down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMilan-Large trees blocking road.
August 2004Flash FloodMilan-Highway 5 and several other rural roads remain closed due to high water.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMilan-Ten inch tree limb knocked down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMilan-Emergency managers reported large trees uprooted between Milan and Humphries.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindMilan-A large tree was downed in a road near Milan
March 2023HailMilan-no account filed
May 2022HailMilan-no account filed
May 2022HailMilan-no account filed
March 2022HailMilan-no account filed
June 2018HailMilan-no account filed
June 2018HailMilan-no account filed
July 2015HailMilan-no account filed
June 2015HailMilan-no account filed
June 2015HailMilan-no account filed
April 2014HailMilan-no account filed
April 2014HailMilan-no account filed
April 2011HailMilan-no account filed
March 2011HailMilan-no account filed
July 2010HailMilan-no account filed
June 2010HailMilan-no account filed
March 2009HailMilan-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
May 2004HailMilan-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
May 2003HailMilan-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
October 2001HailMilan-no account filed
May 1999HailMilan-no account filed
May 1995HailMilan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Milan Railroad Depot0.4 miles1996
Henry Cemetery6.5 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001917 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 6 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.