Sweet Springs Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Saline County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly along Lexington, Marshall, Miller, and Spring Sts., Sweet Springs, 65351
When was it listed? December 1997
Category. district
Also known as. Sweet Springs MPS
Township. Salt Pond township
National Register reference number. 97001485 - 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

10 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Springs Historic District in 2014, burning about 118 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	7
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
29 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
25 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 March 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
13 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Saline 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 Sweet Springs Historic District: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working 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

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Sweet Springs Historic District Boundary Decrease	under 500 feet	2010
	First Christian Church	0.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001485 in Record Group 79.
Saline County	All 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.