Oscar Carlson House

Built in 1930 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Oscar Carlson House is a historic house in rural Morris County, Kansas, southwest of the community of Burdick. Carpenter Swen Johnson built the house for Oscar and Anna Carlson in 1930; Anna contributed several pieces of the design.”
Wikipedia article Oscar Carlson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Morris County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1930, American Craftsman.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Carlson, Oscar, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. KS 2, Burdick, 66838
When was it listed? May 2000
Category. building
Township. Township 8
When was it built? 1930
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 00000533 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Oscar Carlson House between 2016 and 2017, burning about 1,206 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,200 acres	Marion County	LINCOLNVILLE
6 February 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Marion County	375
23 February 2016	Debris and open burning	3.6 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2016020
22 February 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2016019

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Storms near this property

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burdick, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 21 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1999	Tornado (F1)	Burdick	$27,500	A tornado moved from Marion county into Morris county and touched down southwest of Burdick and moved northeast 5 miles before lifting. It struck a farm destroying part of the roof on a house and damaging a garage, two cars, a barn and some fenses.
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	$1,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	$500	Three to four inch tree limbs were broken.
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	Estimated 60 mph wind gust.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	Vehicle-mounted anemometer measured wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	Report of a 6 inch tree limb down.
May 2017	Hail	Burdick	-	Report was received via social media.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	Delayed report of 4-5 inch diameter tree limb snapped. Picture and report via Twitter.
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Burdick	-	EM relayed report of a brief tornado on the ground at 742pm CDT.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	A trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust near Herington.
April 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Burdick	-	Law Enforcement reported a short narrow damage path to hedge row trees relayed by Emergency Manager. Corroborated with radar data and time estimated based off of radar and track from tornado that moved from Marion County.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	Trained spotter estimated winds of 60 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	A lean to was blown off a barn in Burdick.
March 2009	Hail	Burdick	-	Public report of hail the size of walnuts.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	Spotter residence lost power.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	Antenna bent over the house and a pickup truck was pushed off the road.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
November 2005	Tornado (F0)	Burdick	-	The tornado touched down 1 mile SW of Burdick and travelled north for 3 miles and dissipated 2 miles NW of Burdick while causing no damage. It was rated F0. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell.
April 2026	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
October 2016	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
February 2012	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Burdick	-	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Burdick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morris 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

1 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
	Six Mile Creek Stage Station Historic District	5.0 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000533 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morris County	All 27 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.