Saverton School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Saverton School, also known as Saverton Community Center , is a historic school building located at Saverton, Ralls County, Missouri. It was built in 1934, and is a one-story hipped roof, frame building with two school rooms.”
Wikipedia article Saverton School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Ralls County · listed in 1998 · 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.
Address. Jct. of Cty. Rtes. N and E, Saverton, 63467
When was it listed? December 1998
Category. building
Township. Saverton township
National Register reference number. 98001505 - 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

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Saverton School between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,237 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	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
17 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	369
10 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	276
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	203
28 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	204
27 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	199
9 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.6 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177314-06417-03092018-1150
8 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	190314-06417-03082020-2030
31 March 2020	Debris and open burning	7.3 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	190477-06417-03312020-1610

Every fire recorded in Ralls County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Saverton School: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Hannibal Plant - Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
Al Plant - Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Burlington Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ralls County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saverton, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Saverton	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree which blocked Highway 79 at an unknown location.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Saverton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs and power lines onto Highway 79 just southwest of Saverton.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Saverton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree across a road just south southwest of Saverton.
August 2007	Flood	Saverton	-	Heavy rain upstream caused minor flooding on the Mississippi River. At Saverton, the river peaked about 1.5 feet over flood stage and was still in flood when the month ended.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Saverton	-	Burlington Northern employees reported a brief tornado in southern Ralls County. The train had stopped to allow another train to pass when a small tornado passed in front of the lead locomotive. Some trees were damaged in the area.
August 2004	Lightning	Saverton	-	A lighting strike was believed to be the cause of a fire at the Saverton Community Church. Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the rear roof area of the church.
April 2008	Hail	Saverton	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Saverton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ralls 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

4 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
Lock and Dam No. 22 Historic District	1.0 miles	2004
Ilasco Historic District	3.0 miles	2016
James B. Brown House	6.4 miles	1984
John Garth House	7.8 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001505 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ralls County	All 9 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.