Frederick W. and Mary Karau Pott House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Frederick W. and Mary Karau Pott House is a historic home located at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It was built about 1885, and is a Italianate style brick dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Frederick W. and Mary Karau Pott House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Cape Girardeau County · listed in 1999 · 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.
Listed as. Pott, Frederick W. and Mary Karau, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 826 Themis St., Cape Giradeau, 63701
When was it listed? June 1999
Category. building
Township. Cape Girardeau township
National Register reference number. 99000745 - 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

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Frederick W. and Mary Karau Pott House between 1996 and 2019, burning about 142 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 July 1996	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Shawnee National Forest	REIMAN
19 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47 acres	Shawnee National Forest	REIMANN ROAD
4 March 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
31 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	HIGHWAY 3
17 March 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	REIMANN RD
10 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shawnee National Forest	REIMAN

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Frederick W. and Mary Karau Pott House: 16 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica. 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
Marquette Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Unknown Silica	Silica	Past Producer
Cape Giradeau Sand Co Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dredge # 5	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Arnold Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Federal Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Houck Stadium Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Jackson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Marquette Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Oglesby Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau 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

6 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
Esquire Theater	under 500 feet	2005
Broadway Theatre	0.1 miles	2015
Broadway Commercial Historic District	0.1 miles	2016
Erlbacher Buildings	0.1 miles	2009
Oliver-Leming House	0.2 miles	1980
J. Maple and Grace Senne Wilson House	0.2 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000745 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cape Girardeau County	All 63 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.