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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Pleasant Valley School District #2
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. 2905 Thomas Rd., Wellsville, 66092
- When was it listed? February 2004
- Category. building
- Township. Franklin township
- National Register reference number. 04000078 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
60 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley School District #2 between 2015 and 2020, burning about 592 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 284 |
| 8 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 293 |
| 25 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Franklin County | 273 |
| 24 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 311 |
| 2 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Franklin County | 246 |
| 11 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Franklin County | 261 |
| 10 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 244 |
| 5 May 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Franklin County | 32 |
Storms near this property
37 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellsville, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $3,000,000 | Trees were uprooted. There was damage to the high school roof. Numerous power lines down over a large swath of Wellsville. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Wellsville | $100,000 | Large hail accompanied by high winds caused widespread damage in and north of Wellsville. This supercell storm had originated in central Kansas and produced extensive and widespread, mainly straightline/ downburst wind damage, as it moved east across the region, finally exiting the state around 2200 CST. |
| June 1999 | Lightning | Wellsville | $10,000 | An unusual event occurred in Wellsville when lightning that struck a house a few days earlier and ignited a smoldering fire that burst into flames the evening of the 2nd. Considerable damage was done to the house, mainly the attic portion. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Wellsville | $8,000 | Large hail propelled by winds estimated over 70 mph caused damage to a barn and outbuildings. Heavy rains of three to five inches, most of it occurring in about one hour, caused isolated temporary flooding. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $5,000 | Strong winds blew tree limbs down on a transformer doing considerable damage. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | $3,000 | Strong winds lifted a barn off its foundation and did some damage to the structure. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | Power pole is down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | Trained spotter estimated winds gusts between 60 and 70 mph. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Wellsville | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Wellsville | - | Hen egg sized hail reported. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | Large tree branches were reported down. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Wellsville | - | Approximately half dollar size hail at the Wellsville Elementary. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | - | Flash flooding of several streets in Wellsville. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Wellsville | - | Heavy rains of two to 5 inches caused some flooding for a time in Wellsville. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellsville | - | no account filed |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wellsville Bank Building | 3.5 miles | 1991 |
 | Walnut Creek Bridge | 4.2 miles | 1985 |
| Tauy Baptist Church | 4.6 miles | 2024 | |
 | Tauy Jones House | 5.7 miles | 1972 |
| Tauy Creek Bridge | 5.8 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04000078 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 21 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.