Built in 1934 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Washington County Courthouse located at 214 C St. in Washington, Kansas is an Art Deco-style courthouse built during c.1932-1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Washington County Courthouse (Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1934, Art Deco architecture, by Overend & Boucher.
National Register reference number. 00000328 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
10 since 2017
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Washington County Courthouse
between 2017 and 2020, burning about 118 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
Debris and open burning
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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 National Weather Service names
Washington, the town this property stands in, in 73 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 38 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 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.
Moderate or greater flooding on Mill Creek immediate reach of gage vicinity of Washington. Flood damage to county and township roads, bridges, culverts, solid waste department and rural water district.
A tornado touched down near Washington and moved northeast . The tornado damaged outbuildings, an antenna, and power poles before dissipating 2 miles north of Washington.
Spotter reported an elephant trunk shaped tornado around 2 miles northwest of Washington. EM was not able to find any damage but area is open pasture so possible that touched down in pasture and did no damage.
Very small brief tornado did minor damage to buildings in southwest portions of Washington. Tornado was only 50 yards wide and had winds of around 80 mph which would have been similar to surrounding 60 to 80 mph winds within the bow echo.
Numerous reports of damage across the city. Power poles snapped, trees down, roofs lifted off buildings, heavy equiptment reported to be damaged, and roads are blocked by downed limbs.
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.
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.
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