Morton Albaugh House

Built in 1910 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Shawnee County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1910, Prairie School architecture.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Albaugh, Morton, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1331 SW Harrison St., Todeka, 66612
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. building
City. Topeka city
When was it built? 1910
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture, American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 04000366 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

537 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 537 fires within 5 miles of Morton Albaugh House between 2006 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. None started naturally. 118 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	255
Arson/incendiarism	118
Debris and open burning	99
Smoking	26
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Fireworks	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
8 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee County	15240
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	16182
29 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Shawnee County	127
29 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	15109
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	14941
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	17446
22 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	14677
20 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	14591

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morton Albaugh House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Kansas Sand and Concrete Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Shawnee 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
Morgan House	under 500 feet	2004
William T. and Delora Crosby House	0.3 miles	2011
Charles Curtis House	0.3 miles	1973
Bowker House	0.3 miles	2007
Chester B. Woodward House	0.4 miles	1992
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site	0.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000366 in Record Group 79.
Shawnee County	All 108 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.