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One of 34 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
John McCarthy House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. McCarthy, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 19700 Sunflower Rd., Edgerton, 66021
- When was it listed? July 2000
- Category. building
- Township. McCamish township
- National Register reference number. 00000758 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
47 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of John McCarthy House between 2007 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. 1 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 | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Johnson County | 2550120 |
| 10 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Johnson County | 2530128 |
| 9 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2210055 |
| 8 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2200109 |
| 29 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2410135 |
| 2 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2140128 |
| 9 July 2018 | Fireworks | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1900094 |
| 8 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Johnson County | 1890064 |
Storms near this property
36 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgerton, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 18 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Edgerton | $500,000 | Severe thunderstorms produced hail up to the size of baseballs and 60 knot winds throughout parts of western and southern Johnson County. Hail broke numerous windows and heavily damaged roofs and automobiles. Damage was also reported in Clare. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $10,000 | A 40 foot by 80 foot barn was destroyed by a microburst near Edgerton. Nearby power poles were also heavily damaged and 8 to 10 inch tree limbs were also torn off of trees. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Edgerton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $3,000 | A 3 mile path of wind damage associated with strong straight line winds, or a downburst moved across the far southern portion of the county, from the Douglas county line west and southwest of Edgerton all the way to the Cass county (MO) line east of Stillwell. The damage was observed mainly along 199th street, with numerous trees broken or tipped leaning to the south. Trees were also downed in the Edgerton cemetery. A brief tornado was also attributed to this storm, crossing into the county west of Edgerton from Douglas county. (See additional entries for more information, and also see reports from Topeka - TOP.) |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorms downed several large tree limbs in Edgerton, and produced dime size hail in Stillwell, and nickel size hail in Stanley. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Edgerton | - | Quarter sized hail reported in Edgerton. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Edgerton | - | Golf ball sized hail in Edgerton. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Edgerton | - | Golf ball sized hail fell along Interstate 35 just south of Edgerton. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Large tree downed in Edgerton. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | A semi tipped over on I-35 and 215th Street. And power poles were down at 207th and Braun in Edgerton. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Public reported 60-70 mph wind. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | An estimated 60 mph wind was reported by a trained spotter. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | A trained spotter measured 58 mph winds. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Several power lines were down on 183rd St just west of Edgerton Road. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 mph. |
| September 2014 | Flash Flood | Edgerton | - | Areas near Gardner and Edgerton received 2 to 3 inches of rain, resulting in some intersections being closed-off. These intersections include: Waverly Road and 175th and Moonlight and Santa Fe in Gardner. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Edgerton | - | Johnson county law enforcement reported, that 159th Street from Evening Star Road west to the Douglas county line, was closed due to flash flooding. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Emergency management officials reported 60 mph wind gusts along Interstate 35 near Edgerton. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | A HAM Radio Operator in Johnson County reported several 70 MPH wind gusts within a 20 minute period between 1755 and 1815 LST during a severe thunderstorm in Edgerton. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | Johnson County Emergency Management reported a 60 MPH wind gust along I-35 in Platte and a 65 MPH gust at Edgerton. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Edgerton | - | A 3 mile path of wind damage associated with strong straight line winds, or a downburst moved across the far southern portion of the county, from the Douglas county line west and southwest of Edgerton all the way to the Cass county (MO) line east of Stillwell. The damage was observed mainly along 199th street, with numerous trees broken or tipped leaning to the south. Trees were also downed in the Edgerton cemetery. A brief tornado was also attributed to this storm, crossing into the county west of Edgerton from Douglas county. (See additional entries for more information, and also see reports from Topeka - TOP.) |
| July 1995 | Hail | Edgerton | - | Dime-size hail was reported one miles south of Edgerton along Interstate and one inch hail in Olathe. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| February 2003 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| February 2002 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Edgerton | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lanesfield School | 1.4 miles | 1988 |
| Mt. Pleasant Four Corners Burying Grounds | 4.5 miles | 2021 | |
 | Herman B. Foster House | 4.8 miles | 2007 |
| Downtown Gardner Historic District | 5.0 miles | 2023 | |
 | William Thomas Turner Barn | 5.1 miles | 1999 |
 | WPA Beach House at Gardner Lake | 6.7 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000758 in Record Group 79. |
| Johnson County | All 34 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.