BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Trego County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Trego County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Tract 10-12-23, Trego County Fairgrounds, Wa Keeney, 67672
- When was it listed? January 2004
- Category. building
- Township. WaKeeney township
- National Register reference number. 03001500 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Trego County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building between 2015 and 2020, burning about 24 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 | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 4 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 1 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
| 3 March 2020 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 26 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Stradal House | 0.2 miles | 2001 |
| Keraus Hardware Store | 0.8 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03001500 in Record Group 79. |
| Trego County | All 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.