Onyx Cave

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 1999 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 14705 Private Drive 8541, Newburg, 65550
When was it listed? May 1999
Category. site
Township. Union township
National Register reference number. 99000529 - 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Onyx Cave between 1992 and 2017, burning about 847 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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
Arson/incendiarism	25
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
31 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	P HIGHWAY
23 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	PJ WF
2 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	FIREBALL
30 July 2017	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	WESTERN STAR
27 July 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	TURTLE
25 May 2005	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	3 MILE

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Onyx Cave: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Agricultural College Land	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Browns Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Devils Elbow Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Jerome Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski 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
	Devil's Elbow Historic District	3.2 miles	2017
	Piney Beach	3.5 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000529 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pulaski 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.