Chariton County Jail and Sheriff's Residence

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Chariton County Jail and Sheriff's Residence is a historic combined sheriffs residence and jail in Keytesville, Missouri. It was built in 1906-1907, and is a red brick building with Queen Anne-style detailing.”
Wikipedia article Chariton County Jail and Sheriff's Residence, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Chariton County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
Address. 305 S. Cherry St., Keytesville, 65261
When was it listed? January 1997
Category. building
Township. Keytesville township
National Register reference number. 96001597 - 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

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Chariton County Jail and Sheriff's Residence between 1997 and 2014, burning about 25 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 November 2014	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 January 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Chariton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chariton County Jail and Sheriff's Residence: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keytesville, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1999	Hail	Keytesville	$3,000	Quarter size hail dented cars south of Keytesville.
December 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Keytesville	$1,000	Trees and power lines reported down by the public.
March 2023	Hail	Keytesville	-	A supercell produced 1.25 hail in Keytesville in Chariton County.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Keytesville	-	Estimated 60 mph winds in Keytesville.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Keytesville	-	Multiple trees and power lines were down along Highway 24 between Keytesville and Salisbury. Also a grain bin was blown over and a shed roof was blown off along Highway 24.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Keytesville	-	A tree of unknown size and condition was down on a house near Keytesville.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Keytesville	-	Water was flowing over Highway 24.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Keytesville	-	Highway 24 was reported to be down to one lane, due to high water.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Keytesville	-	Law enforcement officials estimated winds at 60 mph.
June 1998	Hail	Keytesville	-	Golfball-size hail was reported in Keytesville by a local radio station.
April 1997	Hail	Keytesville	-	Dime-size hail was reported by the public during a severe thunderstorm 5 miles north of Keytesville
May 2008	Hail	Keytesville	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Keytesville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Keytesville	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Keytesville	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Keytesville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Keytesville	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Keytesville	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Keytesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
First Presbyterian Church	0.3 miles	1977
Redding-Hill House	0.4 miles	1969
Dalton Vocational School Historic District	3.3 miles	2002
Salisbury Square Historic District	7.5 miles	2009
Fabrishous and Sarah A. Thomas House	7.7 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001597 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chariton County	All 7 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.