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Photograph of Caplinger Mills Historic District
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Caplinger Mills Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Caplinger Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Caplinger Mills, Cedar County, Missouri. The district includes one contributing site and three contributing structures related to the development and use of water power in Cedar County.”

Wikipedia article Caplinger Mills Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Cedar 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Washington Ave. and the Sac R., Caplinger Mills, 65785
  • When was it listed? September 1993
  • Category. district
  • Township. Washington township
  • National Register reference number. 93000903 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Caplinger Mills Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 782 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
27 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 2018Debris and open burning6.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176733-02007-04282018-2124
24 April 2018Debris and open burning4.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176685-02007-04242018-1500
2 April 1995Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 2017Debris and open burning44 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Caplinger Mills Historic District: 3 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caplinger Mills, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 flood, 2 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 2013HailCaplinger Mills$50,000Several houses had roof damage and cars had hail damage due to the large hail stones.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCaplinger Mills$5,000Power lines were downed by severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCaplinger Mills$1,000Minor roof damage was reported to a trailer home.
June 2024Flash FloodCaplinger Mills-State Highway K was closed due to flooding of Cedar Creek.
May 2022FloodCaplinger Mills-State Highway K was closed due to flooding on Cedar Creek.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCaplinger Mills-Several large trees were blown down near North Street and North Spur.
June 2013FloodCaplinger Mills-Route K was closed.
March 2008FloodCaplinger Mills-This flooding is a continuation of the flash flooding. Poor drainage areas continued to flood roadways and lowlands near rivers and creeks.
March 2008Flash FloodCaplinger Mills-Saturated antecedent conditions existed prior to this period of excessive rainfall. Some regional locations experienced record rainfall totals from February and March. One to three inches of rain fell across the county causing widespread flash flooding of low water crossings, county roads, and low lying areas near creeks and rivers. Ultimately, all locations that typically flood during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCaplinger Mills-Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over a large tree.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCaplinger Mills-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees and power lines.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCaplinger Mills-A few trees were downed from thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCaplinger Mills-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree.
March 2007HailCaplinger Mills-no account filed
June 2001HailCaplinger Mills-no account filed
March 2000HailCaplinger Mills-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindCaplinger Mills-no account filed
April 1998HailCaplinger Mills-no account filed
March 1997HailCaplinger Mills-no account filed
March 1996HailCaplinger Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Stockton Community Building6.8 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000903 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cedar CountyAll 2 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.