Sylvester Marion and Frances Anne Stephens Baker House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“Sylvester Marion and Frances Anne Stephens Baker House is a historic home located near Montgomery City, Montgomery County, Missouri. It was built in 1854, and is two-story, Greek Revival style brick I-house.”
Wikipedia article Sylvester Marion and Frances Anne Stephens Baker House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.99001018- 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
4 since 2013
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sylvester Marion and Frances Anne Stephens Baker House
between 2013 and 2016, burning about 115 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Debris and open burning
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
94 workings within 5 miles of Sylvester Marion and Frances Anne Stephens Baker House: 92 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Montgomery City, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 29 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
A mobile home was heavily damaged west of Wellsville injuring a child inside. Numerous large trees were also knocked down near Montgomery City. Reported by a local newspaper.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees, numerous tree limbs and power lines. One tree was blown down across Highway 161 near intersection with Highway V.
A weak tornado briefly touched down about two miles south of Montgomery City along Blue Bird Road. Much of the damage was confined to tree damage. Before lifting and dissipating near the intersection of Blue Bird Road and Bob White Road, the roof of an old machine shed was peeled off to the south. The tornado path length was two tenths of a mile with a max path width of 30 yards. The damage was rated EF0 with max wind speeds of 75 MPH.
Thunderstorm winds blew over two semis on Interstate 70 near New Florence. Also, numerous trees and several power lines were blown down on Highway 19 between Montgomery City and Interstate 70. No injuries were reported.
The County Sheriff reported water 6 inches deep flowing over the Elkhorn Creek bridge on Highway 161. Six to 8 inches of water was reported on Highway 19 in Montgomery City.
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.
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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