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George A. Murrell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Murrell House, also known as Oak Grove, is a historic home located near Napton, Saline County, Missouri. It was built in 1854, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style timber frame I-house with a two-story rear ell.”

Wikipedia article George A. Murrell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Saline 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Murrell, George A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 0.75 mi. E and 0.5 mi. N of MO E and H, Napton, 65340
  • When was it listed? November 1997
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Antebellum Resources of Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, and Saline Counties MPS
  • Township. Salt Fork township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 97001435 - 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.

The ground it stands on

1,926 words

This property stands in Salt Fork Township. History of Saline County, Missouri, Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources ... with a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men .., published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Salt Fork Township - 1,926 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of George A. Murrell House between 1993 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177774-02729-08252018-0247
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177775-02729-08232018-0820
13 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 February 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 December 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 October 2019Naturalunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179316-02729-10012019-0325
26 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177771-02729-01262018-0100

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of George A. Murrell House: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc. 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
Marmaduke DiggingsBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Branham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Napton, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2016Thunderstorm WindNapton-Broadcast media reported to the NWS a 60 mph wind gust from near Marshall, Missouri.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNapton-no account filed
May 2003HailNapton-no account filed
September 2001HailNapton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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

6 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
Neff Tavern Smokehouse4.3 miles1978
William B. Sappington House4.7 miles1970
Free Will Baptist Church of Pennytown5.9 miles1988
Arrow Rock7.2 miles1966
Arrow Rock Tavern7.2 miles1972
Arrow Rock State Historic Site Bridge7.3 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001435 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saline CountyAll 26 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.