Karnes Stone Barn

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Karnes Stone Barn, near Carbondale in Osage County, Kansas, is a barn built in 1877. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Karnes Stone Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Osage County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1877.

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. 4204 E. 129th St., Carbondale, 66414
When was it listed? January 2004
Category. building
Township. Elk township
When was it built? 1877
National Register reference number. 03001468 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

63 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Karnes Stone Barn between 2015 and 2020, burning about 720 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	54
3 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	56
18 July 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Osage County	196
23 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	39
10 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shawnee County	579
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1800134
21 April 2015	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	506
15 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Storms near this property

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carbondale, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 33 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 funnel cloud, 4 tornado. 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
May 1995	Hail	Carbondale	$125,000	Large hail and high winds combined to produced a 1.5 mile wide west to east swath of damage through the northern of the county, mainly along highway 56 from Overbrook and then west near highway 31.
November 1998	Tornado (F0)	Carbondale	$75,000	A small rain-wrapped tornado damaged or destroyed mainly outbuildings, barns, trees and a few roofs as it moved northeast from southwest of Carbondale, across Main and Second streets before dissipating a little west of US Highway 75. Most of the damage occurred southwest of town and in about a 2 block section around Main and Second streets near the downtown area.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	Storm spotter reported a wind gust of 60 to 70 mph.
March 2022	Hail	Carbondale	-	Quarter sized hail reported.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	Tree branches 6 to 8 inches in diameter down. Nickel size hail also reported.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	At least 4 inch diameter limbs down.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	Four inch diameter limbs snapped.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	Quarter size hail was also falling.
May 2016	Hail	Carbondale	-	Winds were also estimated to be 60 MPH.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	A few 3 inch diameter tree limbs down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	Wind gusts estimated.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	Damage to roof with winds of 60-65 mph estimated.
September 2011	Funnel Cloud	Carbondale	-	Funnel cloud reported near Carbondale Lake.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	A 30 foot tall tree 13 inches in diameter was blown down across the road.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	A 30 foot tall tree 13 inches in diameter was blown down across the road.
July 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Carbondale	-	A funnel cloud briefly touched down with dust near the ground visible in an open field. The tornado lasted less than 30 seconds and did no damage. It was a landspout tornado.
July 2010	Funnel Cloud	Carbondale	-	Two funnel clouds persisted. One reached down 3/4 of the way to the ground and was pointed at the tip. No debris was visible due to tree line.
July 2010	Funnel Cloud	Carbondale	-	A funnel cloud was observed by Forbes Field control tower personnel between 5 and 10 miles south of the airfield.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Carbondale	-	Water rescue completed one and a half miles east of Kansas Hwy-99. A person was trapped in their vehicle due to flash flood waters. Neither a death or injury was reported.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Carbondale	-	A tornado touched down briefly in open country.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Carbondale	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. Water overflowed part of a road junction south of Carbondale. Streets were flooded in Overbrook.
August 2004	Tornado (F0)	Carbondale	-	A tornado briefly touched down near Carbondale then dissipated.
August 2004	Funnel Cloud	Carbondale	-	Several funnel clouds were seen near Carbondale.
July 2003	Funnel Cloud	Carbondale	-	A funnel cloud was spotted north of Carbondale.
May 2017	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Carbondale	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Carbondale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001468 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Osage County	All 14 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.