Abernathy Furniture Company Factory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Leavenworth County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 200-210 Seneca St., Leavenworth, 66048
When was it listed? October 2004
Category. building
City. Leavenworth city
National Register reference number. 04001142 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Abernathy Furniture Company Factory between 2015 and 2018, burning about 80 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Debris and open burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
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
31 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Leavenworth County	1604
28 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Leavenworth County	124
21 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	709
19 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	119
19 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1265
14 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	505
8 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	975
29 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	87

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Abernathy Furniture Company Factory: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Baker Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Leavenworth County

Storms near this property

60 of 121 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leavenworth, the town this property stands in, in 121 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 59 hail, 45 thunderstorm wind, 16 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
October 2005	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	$1,000,000	Flash flooding reported in Leavenworth with 130 buildings having suffered minor damage. 20 buildings reported major damage.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$20,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew trees down onto a transformer causing a fire at Leavenworth. Thunderstorm winds in Jarbalo took the roof off a barn and blew down a grain bin.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$13,000	A 20 by 30 foot section of house roof blown off. Garage doors blown in and patio windows blown out.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$10,000	A tree fell on top of a house.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$5,000	Extensive tree damage was reported across western portions of Leavenworth. Several large trees were blown onto houses. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$5,000	Power out in much of Leavenworth, due to downed power lines. A roof was blown onto Highway 73. Trees also reported blocking Highways 73 and 92. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$5,000	Trees and power lines down.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$5,000	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$3,000	Tree limbs and power lines down.
August 2011	Hail	Leavenworth	$2,000	Hail up to softball in size, was reported in Fort leavenworth. Car windows were broken out.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$2,000	Several powerlines were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$1,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 65 mph. A 24 inch diameter tree, along with several smaller trees, were reported down at 10th and Chestnut. Another tree fell on a parked vehicle at 726 Ottawa Street.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$1,000	Trees and powerlines were reported down in Leavenworth. Winds were estimated up to 80 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$1,000	Trees and power lines were reported down with winds estimated to 60 mph.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$1,000	Power poles and tree limbs down.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	$500	Structural damage was reported to two barns. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Roof damaged on west side of Leavenworth.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Downed wires and power outages near 7th Street in Leavenworth.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Tree down on the west side of Leavenworth.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Several reports of downed tree limbs and wires in the Leavenworth area.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Downed wires near Ottawa Street in Leavenworth.
May 2025	Hail	Leavenworth	-	Half dollar sized hail reported in Leavenworth.
March 2024	Hail	Leavenworth	-	Quarter size hail was reported on the north side of Leavenworth.
April 2023	Hail	Leavenworth	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Leavenworth.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph on the north side of Leavenworth.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Several trees were down in the area, some approximately 20 inches in diameter, however it was reported that the trees were in poor health.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Emergency management reported a tree down on a house in Leavenworth.
August 2019	Flood	Leavenworth	-	Several streets in Leavenworth were closed due to flooding.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	A 12 inch diameter tree was down at Spruce and Central in Leavenworth. The tree did some power line and power pole damage.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Emergency Management reported 60 mph wind.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Trained Spotter reported 60 mph wind.
April 2016	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	There were 8 inches of water running over K92 just southwest of Lecompton Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	A tree fell over into the power lines in West Leavenworth, causing the transformer to blow.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	There was a blown transformer in Leavenworth from strong winds.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	A large tree was blown down near 10th and Spruce Street.
October 2014	Hail	Leavenworth	-	Size was estimated from a photograph.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Several large trees were reported down, with thunderstorm wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	A thunderstorm wind gust was measured at 63 mph, at the Leavenworth County Courthouse.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Several large trees reported down in the eastern side of Leavenworth. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	A large tree was reported down on the 900 block of 12th Street. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Heavy rains caused 14 to 18 inches of water, on many roads in Leavenworth.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	A 14 inch diameter tree was blown over at 175th and Mt. Olivet Road.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Flash flooding was reported and closed the intersection of 10th and Limit.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	A water rescue was needed near the animal shelter on 2nd Street.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	A high water rescue was reported on Second Street in Leavenworth.
August 2009	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Water was observed up to car doors, near the corner of Quincy Street and Newman Street.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Southbound lanes of K7 were flooded, and water was running over the road, at 10th Avenue and Wellington and Shrine Park Roads.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Street flooding was reported in Leavenworth and Lansing.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	A few small branches were downed by the wind.
April 2005	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Water rose to bottom of cars in supermarket parking lot.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Heavy rains from thunderstorms caused numerous roads to be flooded across the county.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Numerous roads closed around Leavenworth due to heavy rains.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	Street flooding 200th and Highway 7.
March 2004	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	242nd Street closed due to high water.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	Large trees down in Leavenworth.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	County road 16 and Kansas avenue still closed due to flooding from heavy rains.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Leavenworth	-	County road 16 and Kansas avenue still closed due to heavy rains.
November 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Leavenworth	-	A severe thunderstorm raced north-northeast through Leavenworth County. Emergency management officials reported downed tree limbs 8 inches in diameter west of Leavenworth.

Every storm recorded in Leavenworth 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
Old Union Depot	under 500 feet	1982
North Esplanade Historic District	0.2 miles	1977
Leavenworth Historic Industrial District	0.2 miles	2002
AXA Building	0.3 miles	1972
Hollywood Theater	0.3 miles	1990
Leavenworth Downtown Historic District	0.3 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001142 in Record Group 79.
Leavenworth County	All 40 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.
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.