Black Jack Battlefield

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2004 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. US 56 and Cty Rd. 2000, 3.o mi. E of Baldwin City, Baldwin, 66092
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. site
Township. Palmyra township
National Register reference number. 04000365 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

70 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Black Jack Battlefield between 2015 and 2020, burning about 438 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	311
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
27 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	229
4 April 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	153
28 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	51
28 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	29

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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
Santa Fe Trail-Douglas County Trail Segments	under 500 feet	2002
Black Jack Battlefield Boundary Increase	0.3 miles	2005
Old Castle Hall, Baker University	3.1 miles	1971
First Methodist Episcopal Church	3.3 miles	2025
Parmenter Memorial Hall	3.3 miles	1977
William A. Quayle House	3.3 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000365 in Record Group 79.
Douglas County	All 118 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.