Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“Stockton Community Building, also known as the Trent-Sallee American Legion Post #230, is a historic community centre located at Stockton, Cedar County, Missouri. It was built in 1933-1934 through a grant from the Civil Works Administration.”
Wikipedia article Stockton Community Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Cedar County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.98001502- 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
31 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Stockton Community Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 342 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning
29
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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
8 workings within 5 miles of Stockton Community Building: 7 past producers, 1 producer.
1 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Stockton, the town this property stands in, in 91 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 43 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 12 flash flood, 2 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.
Thunderstorm winds flipped three mobile homes to the north of Stockton and downed trees in Monett and south of Dadeville. A tractor-semitrailer was blown off of Interstate 44 near Mt Vernon.
A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado impacted a rural section of Cedar County near the community of Stockton. Wind speeds were estimated at 100 mph. Mainly trees along with a few outbuildings were damaged.
Portions of Highway 32 eastbound into Stockton were impassable due to high water. Several other county roads and a few city streets were also reported as flooded. Flooding continued into the very early hours of May 1st.
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
1 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.
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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