Wolcott House

Built in 1928 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Wolcott House is a historic house in Mission Hills, Kansas, U.S.. Wolcott, a grain dealer, and his wife Wynnogene.”
Wikipedia article Wolcott House (Mission Hills, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1928, Tudor Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5701 Oakwood Rd., Mission Hills, 66208
When was it listed? May 2001
Category. building
City. Mission Hills city
When was it built? 1928
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture, eclectic architecture
National Register reference number. 01000448 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

150 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Wolcott House between 2007 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	81
Smoking	12
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	2

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
9 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2520092
9 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Johnson County	2520108
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2680121
22 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2650077

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Wolcott House: 48 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Doyle Rock Company Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown-Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Brush Creek Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Clark Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Coyter Brothers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Doarn Quarry and Brick Yard	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Elmer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Feebeck Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Grady Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Holmes Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission Hills, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 hail. 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
March 2026	Hail	Mission Hills	-	Quarter sized hail reported near Roe and 71st.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Tree snapped at a residence in Prairie Village.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Downed wires and power outages reported north of Leawood near the state line.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Downed tree limbs and wires near 62nd Terrace.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Social media report of a downed tree on Belinder Avenue in Prairie Village.
May 2024	Hail	Mission Hills	-	Quarter sized hail in Fairway.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Five inch diameter tree limb down, estimated 60 mph wind, and power out.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Estimated 60 mph winds with power outages in Fairway.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Downed wires and power outages near 71st Street.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Large tree limbs across Fairway. Power is out.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	A tree was down on Granada Lane near KCTV 5 studios in Fairway, Kansas.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	A tree limb about 12 inches in diameter came down in a yard near Prairie Village.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	A 14 to 16 inch tree was snapped and several other branches were broken from other trees near Prairie Village.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Mission Hills	-	A substantial amount of water was running through the golf course in Mission Hills.
April 2007	Flash Flood	Mission Hills	-	Heavy rains led to flash flooding and a water rescue at 6600 Indian Lane.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mission Hills	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph, and caused six to eight inch diameter tree limbs to be downed at 63rd Street and State Line Road.
June 2019	Hail	Mission Hills	-	no account filed
March 1997	Flash Flood	Mission Hills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Shawnee Mission	0.9 miles	1966
Westwood Hills Historic District	1.0 miles	2013
Horn-Vincent-Russell Estate	1.3 miles	1997
Harmon Park Swale	2.8 miles	2018
Broadmoor Ranch House Historic District	3.2 miles	2011
Loomis Historic District	3.7 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000448 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.