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Photograph of Bonnots Mill Historic District
Photograph by John Foster, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bonnots Mill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Bonnots Mill Historic District is a national historic district located at Bonnots Mill, Osage County, Missouri. It encompasses 98 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Bonnots Mill.”

Wikipedia article Bonnots Mill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Osage County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bonnots Mill Historic District between 1993 and 2018, burning about 55 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178665-07607-04192018-0850
17 April 2018Debris and open burning2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178663-07607-04172018-1319
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178664-07607-04172018-1550
22 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 1994Equipment and vehicle use45 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 November 1993Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Bonnots Mill Historic District: 17 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Miner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Osage County

Storms near this property

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonnots Mill, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007FloodBonnots Mill$5,000The Missouri River flooded parts of the northern border of Osage County. Flooding was limited to farmland and roads along the river.
August 2023Flash FloodBonnots Mill-Up to seven inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads across the northeastern portions of Osage County were flooded including Highway 100 near Frankenstein. Baileys Creek was well out of it's banks about 6 miles south southwest of Morrison near County Road 271.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBonnots Mill-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees onto the railroad tracks along Osage and Missouri Rivers.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBonnots Mill-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. A parked trailer carrying boats was flipped over crushing the boats. The size of the boats on the trailer are unknown.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBonnots Mill-Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree blocking Route A in Bonnots Mill. Also, a tree was blown over onto a house in town causing moderate damage.
September 2008FloodBonnots Mill-Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time as the remnants of Hurricane Ike moved through the region causing flooding. Numerous roads were flooded countywide.
April 2016HailBonnots Mill-no account filed
March 2008HailBonnots Mill-no account filed
May 2006HailBonnots Mill-no account filed
April 2005HailBonnots Mill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Dauphine Hotel0.1 miles1980
Huber's Ferry Farmstead Historic District6.4 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001738 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Osage CountyAll 9 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.