Valentine Leight General Store

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1910.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Leight, Valentine, General Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4566 Main St., House Springs, 63051
When was it listed? August 1992
Category. building
Township. Meramec township
When was it built? 1910
National Register reference number. 92001014 - 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

32 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Valentine Leight General Store between 2003 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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	15
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
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
4 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 June 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 April 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Valentine Leight General Store: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
House Springs Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
House Springs Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names House Springs, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 2 hail. 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
May 1995	Hail	House Springs	-	Golf ball-size hail was reported at many locations with a 60 mph wind gust reported at Victoria by the county sheriff's department.
May 1995	Hail	House Springs	-	Reported by the county sheriff's department and the public.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
	Stonebrook	6.8 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001014 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson 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.
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.