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Griffith-McCune Farmstead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Griffith-McCune Farmstead Historic District, also known as Rockford Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Eolia, Pike County, Missouri. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings on a farm developed in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.”

Wikipedia article Griffith-McCune Farmstead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Pike 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Griffith--McCune Farmstead Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. MO WW E of jct. with MO D, Eolia, 63344
  • When was it listed? August 1992
  • Category. district
  • Township. Prairieville township
  • National Register reference number. 92001001 - 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Griffith-McCune Farmstead Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,171 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 September 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179677-08213-09192019-1250
2 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 July 2019Naturalunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179676-08213-07012019-0625
10 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 March 1997Smoking30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 March 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178353-08213-03172019-1255

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Griffith-McCune Farmstead 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Roberts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eolia, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEolia-Thunderstorm winds uprooted a tree across Highway D. There were multiple trees down on Highway D outside of Eolia.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEolia-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and numerous tree limbs around Eolia. One tree fell onto a house causing moderate damage.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Eolia-A tornado touched down about a mile and a quarter west of Eolia and traveled to the east, lifting and dissipating half a mile west of Eolia. The only damage found along the path was broken tree branches and some patterns in the vegetation. The damage was rated EF0 with a path length of 0.65 miles and a max path width of 40 yards.
December 2002HailEolia-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail just north of Eolia.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindEolia-Amateur radio spotters reported 60 mph wind gusts.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindEolia-Amateur radio spotters reported wind gusts around 60 mph.
April 2010HailEolia-no account filed
January 2008HailEolia-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindEolia-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. John's Episcopal Church3.4 miles1970
Cummins & Co. Meloan General Store4.2 miles1993
Northern Methodist Episcopal Church of Clarksville6.5 miles1991
Turner-Pharr House6.6 miles1991
Clarksville Historic District6.6 miles1991
Clifford-Wyrick House6.6 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001001 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pike CountyAll 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.
  • 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.