Cheyenne County Courthouse

Built in 1925 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Cheyenne County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1925, Neoclassical architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 212 E. Washington St., St. Francis, 67756
When was it listed? April 2002
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses of Kansas MPS
Township. Wano township
When was it built? 1925
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 02000391 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

14 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cheyenne County Courthouse between 2007 and 2020, burning about 9,024 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	5
Fireworks	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
21 August 2015	Natural	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	821151
21 August 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	821152
4 July 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Cheyenne County	74171
1 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
10 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
6 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	600 acres	Cheyenne County	3617
6 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cheyenne County	36171
5 March 2017	Fireworks	400 acres	Cheyenne County	3517

Every fire recorded in Cheyenne County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cheyenne County Courthouse: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	St Francis Sand & Ready Mix	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cheyenne 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
	St. Francis City Park	under 500 feet	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000391 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cheyenne County	All 3 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.