O.W. Francis House

Built in 1909 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Jewell County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1909, Queen Anne style.

Sources: 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. Francis, O.W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Rte. 1, Burr Oak, 66936
When was it listed? February 2000
Category. building
Township. Burr Oak township
When was it built? 1909
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 00000036 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of O.W. Francis House between 2017 and 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
17 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Jewell County	9
19 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Jewell County	8
1 May 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	5

Every fire recorded in Jewell County

Storms near this property

60 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burr Oak, the town this property stands in, in 86 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 49 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	1 hurt, $50,000	no account filed
May 2015	Flash Flood	Burr Oak	$250,000	A swath of 5 to 9 inches of rain, with locally higher amounts, was reported across an area stretching from west-central to north-northeastern portions of the county. The Republican River along the northern edge of the county flooded, and numerous county roads were under water.
September 2001	Hail	Burr Oak	$200,000	no account filed
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$150,000	Wind gust was measured with a Davis instrument.
September 2015	Hail	Burr Oak	$150,000	Hail up to the size of golf balls was accompanied by the 80 MPH winds. Hail was approximately 4 inches deep and broke the vehicle's windshield. Numerous home windows were broken in Burr Oak.
May 2013	Hail	Burr Oak	$150,000	Ping pong ball to hen egg size hail was reported.
July 2004	Hail	Burr Oak	$100,000	no account filed
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$75,000	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH, with tree limbs up to 4 inches in diameter downed.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$75,000	A line of thunderstorms producing damaging winds moved through Jewell County. The cooperative observer in Burr Oak estimated wind gusts near 70 MPH and a home weather station near Webber measured a 77 MPH wind gust at 1146 pm CDT. An outbuilding was destroyed a few miles south of the Kansas state line on Highway 128.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$50,000	A few large trees were blown over by the strong winds.
July 2023	Hail	Burr Oak	$50,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$50,000	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Burr Oak	$40,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Burr Oak	$30,000	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Burr Oak	$25,000	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Burr Oak	$25,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$25,000	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Burr Oak	$15,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Burr Oak	$15,000	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$10,000	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
March 2012	Hail	Burr Oak	$10,000	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Burr Oak	$10,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$10,000	no account filed
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$10,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$5,000	Several trees were damaged in this area.
August 2006	Hail	Burr Oak	$5,000	no account filed
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	$2,000	Report via Facebook of minor outbuilding damage and a tipped RV trailer.
June 2008	Hail	Burr Oak	$2,000	Penny to quarter size hail was reported.
May 1993	Hail	Burr Oak	$500	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	A wind gust of 90 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 7 miles northeast of Burr Oak.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	The NWS Cooperative Observer located four miles south of Burr Oak reported several downed tree limbs, a few as large as 6-8 inches in diameter.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 65 MPH, with 4-6 inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
April 2017	Hail	Burr Oak	-	Golf ball to tennis ball size hail was reported. Hail covered Highway 128 to a depth of 1 inch.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
May 2015	Heavy Rain	Burr Oak	-	A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 6.43 inches was reported.
May 2015	Heavy Rain	Burr Oak	-	A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 4.68 inches was reported.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2013	Hail	Burr Oak	-	Most of the hail that fell was pea to dime size, but one stone in particular was the diameter of a quarter.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Blowing dust and zero visibility occurred along with the wind gusts.
June 2012	Hail	Burr Oak	-	Mainly pea sized hail occurred with a few penny sized. Estimated wind gust of 50 mph occurred.
June 2012	Heavy Rain	Burr Oak	-	Rainfall of 3.37 inches over the past 24 hours. The rain began during the late afternoon on June 14th, with the last round of rain ending during the early morning hours of June 15th.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	There were several small branches down. The largest branch down was 8 inches in diameter, with the estimated 60 mph wind gust.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Burr Oak	-	A couple of tree limbs of 14 to 16 inches in diamter were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 75 mph.
June 2008	Hail	Burr Oak	-	Accompanied by heavy rain, with 1.56 inches falling between 7 and 9 a.m.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Burr Oak	-	Rainfall amounts of 3 to 4 inches across portions of central Jewell county sent water rushing over highway 28 three miles south of Burr Oak. Water also flooded across highway 128 two miles north of Ionia. Numerous county roads were also flooded and impassible.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Burr Oak	-	Water was flowing over Kansas Highway 128 near Burr Oak.
April 2021	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed
October 2017	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Burr Oak	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jewell 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
	Burr Oak School	0.7 miles	2005
	Burr Oak United Methodist Church	0.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000036 in Record Group 79.
Jewell 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.
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.