Campbell Chapel AME Church

Built in 1878 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Campbell Chapel AME Church is a church at 715 Atchison Street in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1878 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Campbell Chapel AME Church (Atchison, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Atchison County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1878, Romanesque 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 715 Atchison St., Atchison, 66002
When was it listed? January 2003
Category. building
City. Atchison city
When was it built? 1878
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02001701 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Campbell Chapel AME Church between 2005 and 2018, burning about 58 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	3
Natural	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 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	150750
8 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	180751
10 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Atchison County	not named
6 July 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	180648
15 June 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Atchison County	170536
13 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	180432
15 April 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Atchison County	not named
13 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	180317

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Storms near this property

60 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atchison, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 27 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 8 flood, 2 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
March 2019	Flood	Atchison	$100,000	Once the Missouri River started flooding on March 9, it remained in flood through the remainder of the month. The gauge in St. Joseph, Missouri reached 32.12 feet on March 22 (preliminarily a new record). The flooding was caused by several rounds of heavy snow across the Northern Plains through the winter months, followed by a rapid warm-up and several days of heavy rain. The Missouri River Basin across the Northern Plains flooded with catastrophic consequences as numerous dams and levees failed. As the water flowed into the Missouri River upstream of Buchanan County, the river swelled and ultimately overwhelmed the levees along the river. Local fields were also submerged, which delayed the growing season in the region, but several roads were washed away across Atchison County, and I-29 from St. Joseph northward to the Iowa/Missouri border was closed until mid May. Note: The dollar valued assigned to this event is likely inaccurate as a full tally of the extent of the physical damages is unknown. The Missouri River remained in flood through the rest of the month, into April.
March 2006	Hail	Atchison	$50,000	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Atchison	$25,000	no account filed
July 2000	Lightning	Atchison	$22,000	A lightning strike sparked a house fire. Damage was estimated at $22,000.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	$5,000	Tractor trailers were overturned, and rail cars were blown over. Trees were also reported down.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	$2,000	Trees were reported blown down, with one falling on a car. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	$1,000	A severe thunderstorm moved through Atchison County. 60 mph winds were observed at Muscotah and trees were down in Atchison and in Effingham.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	$500	Three large oak trees were blown down and a high school goal post was blown over.
May 2025	Hail	Atchison	-	Quarter sized hail reported in Atchison.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Downed wires and power outages in the Atchison area.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Tree uprooted near 5th street and T street.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Large tree limbs reported down across Atchison.
April 2023	Hail	Atchison	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in Atchison.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Casey's General Store employee estimated 70 mph winds through Atchison.
April 2019	Flood	Atchison	-	Ongoing flooding along the Missouri River continued through the month of April and into May. Several roads were closed near the banks of the Missouri River. This flooding began in mid March and due to upstream releases and continued periods of heavy rain the flooding continued into May. Monetary damages are unknown despite the entry indicating 0 dollars of damages.
June 2019	Flood	Atchison	-	Heavy spring rains caused ongoing flooding along the Missouri River to Continue through the month. Some locations along the Missouri River experienced major flooding at times during the month. Damage estimates from roads washed out and crop damage are unknown at this time.
May 2019	Flood	Atchison	-	Heavy spring rains caused ongoing flooding along the Missouri River to Continue through the month. Some locations along the Missouri River experienced major flooding at times during the month. Damage estimates from roads washed out and crop damage are unknown at this time.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	An Emergency Manager near Atchison reported a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2016	Hail	Atchison	-	This report was gathered via social media.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	A tree of unknown size or condition was down in Atchison.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph, with tree limbs down.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to an estimated 65 mph. Numerous trees were reported down in the city, blocking roads and causing power outages.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Gust to 58 mph was measured at the Amelia Earhart Airport.
May 2008	Flood	Atchison	-	The Missouri River at Atchison crested at 23.40 feet, or 1.40 feet above flood stage.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Law enforcement relayed a report of a couple of trees blown over. One of the trees was three feet in diameter.
May 2007	Flood	Atchison	-	The Missouri River at Atchison crested at 23.07 feet, or 1.07 feet above flood stage.
May 2007	Flood	Atchison	-	The Missouri River at Atchison crested at 29.15 feet, or 7.15 feet above flood stage.
October 2007	Flood	Atchison	-	The Missouri River at Atchison crested at 23.35 feet, or 1.35 feet above flood stage.
April 2005	Tornado (F0)	Atchison	-	Brief tornado touchdown wrapped in rain, photographed by storm chaser in open country.
April 2005	Tornado (F0)	Atchison	-	Tornado videotaped by storm chaser and observed by Leavenworth Co. EMA in open country.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Atchison	-	Numerous roads remain flooded across the county.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Atchison	-	Flooding continues across the county with numerous roads closed.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Storm spotters estimated wind gusts at 70 mph.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a maple tree 12 inches in diameter.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	The sheriff's department reported downed trees and power lines blocking roads.
September 1998	Hail	Atchison	-	Dime-size hail was reported by the Atchison County Sheriff's Office at the intersection of Highway 59 and 262nd Road. This location is approximately 5 miles southwest of Atchison.
June 1998	Hail	Atchison	-	The Atchison County Sheriif's Office reported dime-size hail during a severe thunderstorm 8 miles south of Atchison.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	Tree limbs, 4 inches in diameter, were reported blown down along River road in Atchison by the sheriff's office.
August 2018	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
March 2015	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
October 2005	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
October 2005	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Atchison	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Atchison	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atchison 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
Atchison Post Office	0.1 miles	1972
Atchison County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1975
Park, Anna & Richard Avery, Mansion	0.2 miles	2025
Glancy/Pennell House	0.2 miles	1983
W. W. Hetherington House	0.2 miles	1974
Lanphear-Mitchell House	0.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001701 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Atchison County	All 51 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.