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Photograph of Downs station
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Downs Missouri Pacific Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Downs station, nominated as the Downs Missouri Pacific Depot, is a historic railroad depot building at 710 Railroad Street in Downs, Kansas. The Missouri Pacific Railroad depot was located at a junction with lines radiating to Atchison, Lenora, and Stockton.”

Wikipedia article Downs station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Osborne County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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.
  • Address. 710 Railroad St., Downs, 67437
  • When was it listed? October 2001
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Railroad Resources of Kansas MPS
  • Township. Ross township
  • Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
  • National Register reference number. 01001093 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Downs Missouri Pacific Depot between 2015 and 2018, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service180011
30 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service9
23 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service3232015
20 October 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service19
18 October 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresKansas Forest Service150034

Every fire recorded in Osborne County

Storms near this property

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Downs, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 27 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005HailDowns$2,000,000no account filed
May 2024HailDowns$1,000,000Hail ranging in size from ping pong balls to baseballs was reported across Downs.
June 2015Tornado (EF1)Downs$250,000This tornado moved west, and began with damage to a silo and large metal building. On the tornado's trek, it tossed grain bin debris about three quarters of a mile. The tornado narrowly missed a new home, but damaged a vacant home on the same property. The tornado lifted in a field west of the farmstead. The movement of this tornado, along with the eastward moving tornado to the south, suggested that the parent mesocyclone associated with the supercell storm was near the ground and that the two tornadoes were rotating within that circulation.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindDowns$200,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindDowns$100,000Wind gusts estimated near 70 mph damaged the second story of a house under construction on Highway 24. A carport was also knocked over, several fences flattened, and several trees of 6 to 8 inches in diameter were blown down.
April 2001Tornado (F1)Downs$100,000Exited Osborne county into Smith county
July 1996HailDowns$100,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindDowns$80,000no account filed
October 2017HailDowns$50,000no account filed
July 2017HailDowns$50,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindDowns$50,000no account filed
June 2013HailDowns$35,000Quarter sized hail was observed in conjunction with the estimated 70 mph wind gust.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDowns$35,000Quarter sized hail was observed in conjunction with the estimated 70 mph wind gust.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDowns$25,000Wind gusts were estimated to be as high as 75 MPH.
August 2019Heavy RainDowns$25,000A 12-hour total rainfall of 4.69 inches was measured in Downs.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDowns$25,000Numerous tree limbs were down across town.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindDowns$20,000no account filed
May 2011FloodDowns$15,000As a result of rainfall totals as high as 3 to 5 inches reported in the area, flooding occurred across northeastern portions of the county. A few county roads along with 2 bridges northwest of Covert were reported covered in water and closed, with some road closures lasted well into the day on the 25th. Ditches filled up, and water started to creep onto Highway 24 near Bloomington, but the road was not closed.
May 2011HailDowns$10,000no account filed
May 2011HailDowns$10,000no account filed
May 2011HailDowns$10,000no account filed
April 2008HailDowns$10,000no account filed
April 2008HailDowns$10,000no account filed
June 2004HailDowns$10,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDowns$5,000Emergency management reported downed tree limbs in Downs.
May 2004HailDowns$5,000no account filed
September 2013Thunderstorm WindDowns$3,000Minor damage was reported to the roof, siding and garage of one home in Downs from wind gusts estimated to be near 60 mph.. A larger tree branch was also broken off of the main trunk.
April 1994HailDowns$500no account filed
August 2016HailDowns-Heavy rain also occurred along with the nickel size hail.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDowns-Branches knocked down by winds estimated at 60 MPH.
July 2010Heavy RainDowns-Storm total rainfall from the previous 12 hours topped out at 5.00 inches.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDowns-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
August 2020HailDowns-no account filed
August 2020HailDowns-no account filed
May 2014HailDowns-no account filed
June 2013HailDowns-no account filed
June 2013HailDowns-no account filed
May 2011HailDowns-no account filed
June 2010HailDowns-no account filed
June 2010HailDowns-no account filed
October 2001HailDowns-no account filed
September 2001HailDowns-no account filed
March 1998HailDowns-no account filed
September 1995HailDowns-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osborne 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Downs Carnegie Library0.1 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001093 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Osborne CountyAll 7 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.