Huber's Ferry Farmstead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Huber's Ferry Farmstead Historic District, also known as William L. Huber Farmstead , is a historic farm and national historic district located near Jefferson City in Osage County, Missouri.”
Wikipedia article Huber's Ferry Farmstead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Osage County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. US 50 and US 63, Jefferson City, 65101
When was it listed? January 1999
Category. district
Township. Washington township
National Register reference number. 98001609 - 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Huber's Ferry Farmstead Historic District between 1993 and 2018, burning about 18 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
Debris and open burning	8

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
5 May 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	178665-07607-04192018-0850
12 March 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 March 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 February 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 February 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 February 1993	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 November 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Huber's Ferry Farmstead Historic District: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Ruetgens Pits	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Miner Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Osage 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

3 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
St. Joseph Church	3.5 miles	1972
Bonnots Mill Historic District	6.4 miles	1993
Dauphine Hotel	6.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001609 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Osage 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.