Ursuline Academy-Arcadia College Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Ursuline Academy--Arcadia College Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jct. of Maine and Maple Sts., Arcadia, 63621
When was it listed? July 1998
Category. district
Township. Arcadia township
National Register reference number. 98000816 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Ursuline Academy-Arcadia College Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 508 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
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
3 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 May 1997	Smoking	223 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	LAKE KILLARNEY
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	8.3 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	334
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	102 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	TURKEY FOOT
4 April 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 April 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Ursuline Academy-Arcadia College Historic District: 26 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, Dimension, Iron, Manganese, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cuthbertson Mtn Mine	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer
Shepherd Mountain	Iron, Sulfur, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1815
Jones Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Russel Property	Manganese	Past Producer
Unknown - Manganese	Manganese	Past Producer
Unknown - Manganese	Manganese	Prospect
Buford Mtn Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer
Cuthbertson's Hill	Iron, Manganese	Occurrence
John Baird Property	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcadia, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
July 2000	Lightning	Arcadia	4 hurt	Four Boy Scouts were injured by a lightning strike while camping on Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest peak in Missouri. The lightning hit a pine tree about 130 feet away. The electricity apparently went through the roots into the boys tent, blowing 4 holes into the bottom of the tent. One boy was knock unconscious. He was not breathing and would likely have died were it not for CPR applied by one of the Scout Leaders. The other boys suffered burns from first to third degree on their backs and arms.
May 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Arcadia	-	A tornado touched down in the southwestern portion of Arcadia, near the intersection of W. Maple Street and S. Main Street. As it tracked to the east it uprooted or snapped off several large trees as it crossed Highway 21 and tracked along Highway 72. It eventually moved northeast, skirting the south shore of Lake Killarney snapping off more trees before lifting and dissipating near Ozark Drive. Overall, the tornado was rated EF1 with a path length of 4.08 miles and a max path width of 100 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcadia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large trees and power lines along Highway 21 and Route E.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcadia	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees between Johnson Shut-Ins State Park and Ironton.
April 1994	Hail	Arcadia	-	Hail reached dime-size just south of Arcadia.
March 2006	Hail	Arcadia	-	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcadia	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Arcadia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Iron County Courthouse Buildings	1.1 miles	1979
St. Paul's Episcopal Church	1.2 miles	1969
Ironton Lodge Hall	1.3 miles	2013
Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church	3.1 miles	1979
Fort Davidson	3.3 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000816 in Record Group 79.
Iron County	All 6 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.