Glasco Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Glasco Downtown Historic District is an early commercial, Italianate historic shopping area located in Glasco, Kansas that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 3.9-acre (1.6 ha) historic district runs roughly along Main Street from Railroad Avenue to Fisher Street and continues along Railroad Avenue and Fisher Streets between Main and Buffalo Streets in Glasco.”
Wikipedia article Glasco Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Cloud County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly along Main St. from Railroad Av. to Fisher St., and Along Railroad Ave and Fisher St. bet Main and Buffalo Sts., Glasco, 67445
When was it listed? November 2002
Category. district
Township. Solomon township
National Register reference number. 02001307 - 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 Glasco Downtown Historic District between 2015 and 2017, burning about 72 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/undetermined	4
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
11 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	110
3 December 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	114
9 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	22
3 October 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Kansas Forest Service	113
27 January 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ottawa County	201701

Every fire recorded in Cloud County

Storms near this property

60 of 88 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasco, the town this property stands in, in 88 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 50 hail, 32 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
February 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	$28,000	strong winds destroyed several outbuildings and a shed at a farmstead. A shed and pickup camper in it were also destroyed.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Wind gust of 60 mph reported.
May 2023	Hail	Glasco	-	Quarter sized hail reported just west of Glasco.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Glasco	-	Water over a 100 foot stretch of road near Crest and 40th, and a roadway under water at the 200 section of Eagle Road.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Glasco	-	Ditches overflowed just east of Glasco with water over Highway 24.
May 2018	Tornado (EF1)	Glasco	-	This broad but weak tornado damaged several outbuildings and power lines along its path. End point based on an extrapolation of a video and radar data.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Multiple reports of medium-sized tree limbs down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Law enforcement estimated 60 MPH winds.
May 2016	Hail	Glasco	-	Radar estimated the time of occurrence.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Estimated winds 70-80 mph. Tree damage unknown.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Tree limbs reported down in the area.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Winds estimated at 60 mph and large tree limbs down.
June 2011	Flood	Glasco	-	In Glasco, about 12 to 18 inches of water flooded the local residential streets.
September 2010	Flash Flood	Glasco	-	Water was flowing over several county roads along the Cloud and Mitchell county line. Ditches along Highway 24 in southwest Cloud County filled up.
June 2009	Hail	Glasco	-	Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	A weak 12 inch diameter tree blew down.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	A spotter estimated 70 mph wind gust.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	Four to six inch tree limbs reported to be down.
June 2008	Hail	Glasco	-	Hail from the size of quarters to the size of golfballs was reported by spotters under this thunderstorm.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	A large tree limb was blown down.
July 2001	Lightning	Glasco	-	Lightning struck a wheat field and started a fire, but rain soon put it out.
April 2019	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
October 2012	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
October 2012	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
February 2012	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
September 2009	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
September 2009	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
February 2004	Hail	Glasco	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Glasco	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cloud 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
	Pott's Ford Bridge	1.1 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001307 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cloud County	All 10 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.