Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
From the record
“The Leo Ellis Post #22, American Legion Building is a historic American Legion building located at 804 Grant St. in Princeton, Mercer County, Missouri. It was built in 1935, and is a rectangular reinforced concrete structure faced in brick.”
Wikipedia article Leo Ellis Post No. 22, American Legion Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 1 National Register listings published here for Mercer County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.96000478- 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
23 since 2014
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Leo Ellis Post #22, American Legion Building
between 2014 and 2018, burning about 248 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
11
Debris and open burning
11
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
31 workings within 5 miles of Leo Ellis Post #22, American Legion Building: 29 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Princeton, the town this property stands in, in 82 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 46 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 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.
Brief 20 second tornado touchdown reported by spotters along E highway, north of ZZ, or 10 miles southeast of Princeton. Minor damage reported to trees and an outbuilding.
A brief EF0 tornado touchdown was observed 5 miles east of Princeton at 20:26 CST, and lifted at 20:27 CST. The only damage observed, was a destroyed shed.
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.
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.
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