Clark-Robidoux House

Built in 1880 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Clark-Robidoux House is a historic house located on 4th Street in Wallace, Kansas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001; the listing included two contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Clark-Robidoux House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Wallace County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1880, Gothic Revival.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Clark--Robidoux House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4th St., Wallace, 67761
When was it listed? April 2001
Category. building
Township. Wallace township
When was it built? 1880
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 01000406 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Clark-Robidoux House in 2018, burning about 100 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
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
25 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Kansas Forest Service	0W17011

Every fire recorded in Wallace County

Storms near this property

60 of 139 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace, the town this property stands in, in 139 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 90 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 7 tornado, 4 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$100,000	Two electric poles snapped, with atleast one more leaning. An old outbuilding, similiar in size to a single car garage, was blown a few feet off its foundation, and an irrigation pivot was overturned.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$100,000	Fifteen empty rail cars overturned. Power lines down, grain bins overturned, significant damage to mobile home.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$80,800	An outbuilding in farmyard was completely destroyed. Nearby a machine shed was also destroyed. Nearby a pine tree was snapped.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$80,000	The tops of grain bins were bent inward. In addition the equipment attached to the grain bin was blown to the ground.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$60,000	As the line of storms moved over the town of Wallace, eight power poles were knocked down near the For Wallace Post Cemetery.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$55,000	Newspaper reported strong winds which downed power poles and overturned pivots. A semi was also reported as being moved 60 feet and two combines were moved 30 feet.
September 1996	Flash Flood	Wallace	$50,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$30,000	Semi with trailer loaded with bales pushed 100 yards due to wind. A nearby grain bin that was partially full was blown off its foundation to the east. In a nearby pasture a combine was pushed roughly a quarter mile from north to south. \|\|Just to the northwest a stock trailer was rolled roughly 100 yards into a pasture, up hill, a piece of a small livestock shed hit a pickup truck, rolling the truck on its side, and a thousand gallon fuel tank was rolled a quarter mile.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$30,000	Three power poles reported down.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$30,000	COOP observer sustained damage at their property due to a strong wind gust from outflow from a thunderstorm. Location is estimated to be near Wallace and time is estimated to be around 5 PM MST. Pictures from their property show a mobile home mostly destroyed with its roof blown off and multiple outer walls lacking integrity. Pictures also show substantial damage to a shed with its roof missing.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$10,000	An old garage just south of Wallace was blown over.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$1,000	Report received via social media of a approximately 12 inch diameter large tree limb broken off from a large tree. Time is estimated from radar and wind speed is estimated from damage indicators.
May 2008	Hail	Wallace	$750	Spotter reported hail breaking the windows.
May 1993	Hail	Wallace	$500	Thunderstorm winds associated with the thunderstorm blew tin off building. Funnel clouds were also reported with this storm.
April 2025	Hail	Wallace	-	Report of golf ball sized hail, with photos, from local Emergency Manager.
April 2025	Hail	Wallace	-	Spotter reported dime to penny sized hail covering the ground.
April 2024	Hail	Wallace	-	Law enforcement report of 1 inch hail.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Over a duration of nine minutes, a WeatherLink station located at Homestead Farms reported multiple 58 mph wind gusts.
May 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Pea to quarter sized hail observed.
July 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Report relayed from survey crew of mixed hail with the largest to around 2 inches in diameter.
July 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Report relayed from survey crew of hail at least 2 inches in diameter. Some house siding was damaged due to wind driven hail.
August 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Ping pong ball sized hail reported at location. Time is estimated from radar.
August 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Ping pong ball sized hail reported at location. Time is estimated by radar.
August 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Off-duty NWS employee reported quarter sized hail at location.
July 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Report relayed from survey crew of hail destroying siding and windows on north side of house. Hail estimated to be at least tennis ball sized, larger hail possible based on damage.
August 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Golf ball sized hail reported at location. Time is estimated by radar.
August 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Report received of golf ball sized hail at location.
August 2023	Hail	Wallace	-	Hail up to golf balls in size reported at location that lasted 10 to 12 minutes from start time. Hail reported to have broken windows as well. Time is estimated by radar.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Report received of an estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Mesonet site recorded a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
July 2022	Hail	Wallace	-	Report received via social media of an estimated 1 inch hail at location.
June 2021	Hail	Wallace	-	Report received via social media of quarter sized hail at location.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Mesonet station reported a 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Report received via social media of a large live tree limb several feet long in size that was snapped off of a tree due to strong winds at location. Time is radar estimated and wind gust speed is estimated based on storm damage.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Mesonet station reported a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
May 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Wallace	-	Caller reported seeing tornado on the ground far north of Sharon Springs. Radar used to confirm exact times and locations.
May 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Wallace	-	Disptach relayed a spotter report of a brief tornado. Radar used for precise location. Another tornado (occurring just across the county line in Logan County) happened simultaneously with this tornado towards the end of this tornado's life.
March 2020	Hail	Wallace	-	A member of the public shared photos with NWS Goodland on social media which showed several inches of accumulated hail along the roadway along US Hwy 40. The individual hail stones ranged from dime to nickel size.
August 2020	Hail	Wallace	-	Hail ranging from pea to nickel sized reported at location. Time is radar estimated.
May 2019	Hail	Wallace	-	Up to ping pong sized hail reported but mostly pea sized hail. Via Facebook.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Wallace	-	Rainfall over the past three hours.
May 2019	Hail	Wallace	-	Hail lasted several minutes, pea to quarter size, with only a few large hail stones.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Wallace	-	Two rounds of heavy rainfall on the 23rd caused the Smoky Hill River to flow over a county road south of Wallace.
April 2019	Tornado (EFU)	Wallace	-	Law enforcement and public reports of a tornado. Viewed from Sherman County, looking south.
July 2018	Hail	Wallace	-	The hail ranged from quarter to ping-pong ball size and was covering the highway and adjacent fields.
July 2018	Hail	Wallace	-	The hail is covering the highway.
June 2014	Hail	Wallace	-	Heavy rainfall with hail stones up to dime size.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Wallace	-	Flash flood report received the following morning from a spotter who stated that heavy rainfall the previous evening resulted in numerous county roads being under water up to a foot and a half deep. Time of event was estimated from Doppler radar rainfall estimates.
August 2013	Flood	Wallace	-	Widespread heavy rainfall of 3-6 inches overnight resulted in flooding of fields, ditches with numerous county roads having 1-2 feet of water running over low spots.
August 2013	Hail	Wallace	-	Heavy rainfall also occurred.
July 2009	Hail	Wallace	-	Hail is covering the ground and water is running out of fields 3 miles south of US 40 on the county line.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Resident stated the wind gust lasted about one minute.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Wallace	-	Water was reported to be running over county roads.
May 2008	Hail	Wallace	-	Public reported very strong winds accompanied the hail, but speeds were unknown.
April 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Wallace	-	No known damage...over open fields. Tornado developed near Roads T, 26 and dissipated near Roads X, 28.
May 2006	Tornado (F0)	Wallace	-	Tornado described as a thin rope and nearly stationary. Tornado occurred mostly over open fields but crossed near intersection of Road G and Road 26 in extreme eastern Wallace county. Tree limb debris was caught in power lines at this location.
May 2006	Tornado (F0)	Wallace	-	Tornado occurred over open fields...no known damage.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Large tree limbs down.
August 2004	Hail	Wallace	-	Hail covered the ground.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Four-inch diameter limbs broken off trees.

Every storm recorded in Wallace 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
	Pond Creek Station	0.7 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000406 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wallace County	All 2 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.