National Personnel Records Center

The National Personnel Records Center(s) (NPRC) is an agency of the National Archives and Records Administration, created in 1966. It is part of the National Archives federal records center system and is divided into two large Federal Records Centers located in St. Louis, Missouri and Valmeyer, Illinois. The term "National Personnel Records Center" is often used interchangeably to describe both the physical Military Personnel Records Center facility and as an overall term for all records centers in the St. Louis area. To differentiate between the two, the broader term is occasionally referred to as the "National Personnel Records Centers".[1]

Military Personnel Records Center
MPRC former location in Overland, Missouri, 1955–2012
Main article: Military Personnel Records Center

The Military Personnel Records Center houses United States Armed Forces military service records dating from the late 1800s to the early 2000s. A major fire on July 12, 1973, destroyed approximately one-third of its 52 million official military personnel files.[2]

The facility was originally located in Overland, Missouri before relocating to Spanish Lake, Missouri in 2011. While located at 9700 Page Avenue, in Overland, the military personnel records center building served as the de facto headquarters for the entire National Personnel Records Center, and was often referred to simply as "NPRC" (the building's official code was NPRC-MPR).

After relocation to Spanish Lake, the designation "Military Personnel Records Center" was dropped from most official correspondence, with the military records building in Spanish Lake thereafter referred to as the "National Personnel Records Center". The term "National Personnel Records Center" may now refer to both the physical military records building in Spanish Lake, as well as an overall term for the National Archives federal records complexes located in St. Louis.[3]

Civilian Personnel Records Center

The Civilian Personnel Records Center houses the Official Personnel Folders (OPF) and Employee Medical Folders (EMF) of separated United States Federal civilian employees. CPR also houses personnel documents that date back to the mid-nineteenth century, although the bulk of the collection covers the period from 1900 to present. The medical records of military family members treated at Army, Air Force and Coast Guard medical facilities are also stored here.

The Civilian Personnel Records Center was first known as the "St. Louis Federal Records Center" before becoming part of the National Personnel Records Center in 1966. The Civilian Personnel Records Center was located on Winnebago Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, and was known as "NPRC-CPR". The facility later shifted locations to Boulder Boulevard in Valmeyer, Illinois and became known as the "NPRC Annex".[4]

National Archives at St. Louis

Housed in the same building as the Military Personnel Records Center (MPRC) is the National Archives at St. Louis which is a regional archives considered part of National Archives research services and separate from the majority of correspondence work handled by the main part of MPRC.[5]

The National Archives at St. Louis is the legal custodian of archived military and civilian personnel records and related personnel data series records. These files are considered open to the public and separate from the military personnel files which are considered protected under the Privacy Act of 1974. Archival records at St. Louis include:[6]

  • U.S. Army patient rosters of certain military hospitals
  • Selective Service System records from 1940 - 1976
  • Army pay cards
  • Philippine Army record material
  • Navy casualty files, also known as "Individual Deceased Personnel Files" or IDPFs
  • Copies of officer order copies
  • Military burial files and headstone applications
  • German Civilian Personnel files from World War II

Preservation St. Louis Office

The National Archives at St. Louis maintains an on-site preservation office for the upkeep of locally maintained records, specifically those records which were damaged by the 1973 National Archives fire. The St. Louis facilities maintain several conservation and preservation labs which deal with fire damaged records as well as records affected by age and mold.[7]

Tenant agencies

The National Personnel Records Center presently hosts fourteen tenant agencies of the United States federal government.[8] These include the Department of Veterans Affairs, the FBI, as well as liaison offices with all of the U.S. armed forces with the exception of the United States Coast Guard.

Directors

The director of the National Personnel Records Center is usually a senior federal civil service employee, rated as a GS-14/15 or as a member of the Senior Executive Service. Office of Personnel Management archives list the directorship of NPRC as established in 1966; prior to this time, the two separate records centers for civilian and military personnel records were considered as separate director positions under the General Services Administration. The term "National Personnel Records Center Director" only came into being when the two buildings were administratively (but not physically) merged in 1966.[9]

National Personnel Records Center Directors

  • Joseph Wertzberger: 1966 - 1973
  • Warren Griffin: 1973 - 1979[N 1]
  • J. D. Kilgore: 1979 - 1982
  • David Petree: 1982 - 2000
  • Ronald Hindman: 2000 - 2011
  • Scott Levins: 2012–Present[N 2]
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References
  1. National Archives, Federal Records Center Program, retrieved 4 Jun 2018
  2. "The 1973 Fire, National Personnel Records Center". 15 August 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  3. National Archives and Records Administration, "The new NPRC", (Aug 2016)
  4. "National Archives at St. Louis". 15 August 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  5. "National Archives at St. Louis". 15 August 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  6. "Archival Record Series other than OMPFs", National Archives reference pamphlet STL-1-14 (January 2014)
  7. "Burned Records". 15 August 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  8. "Facts and Figures About the New National Personnel Records Center". 15 August 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  9. Office of Personnel Management, "National Archives - National Personnel Records Center. Senior leadership positions (1966 - 2015)", Oct 2015

Notes
  1. Served as director during the National Personnel Records Center fire
  2. Served as Acting Director (2011 - 2012) after previously have served as NPRC Assistant Director

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