Minor Sod House

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Minor Sod House, also known as Minor Post Office, near McDonald, Kansas, is a sod house that was built c. 1907.”
Wikipedia article Minor Sod House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Rawlins County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1907.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW 1/4, SW1/4, NW 1/4, SW 1/4, S.20, T.5S, R. 36W, McDonald, 67732
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. building
Township. Rocewood township
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 04001428 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McDonald, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports in 1994: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1994	Hail	McDonald	-	Brief tornado observed by spotter over southwest Rawlins County.
June 1994	Hail	McDonald	-	Penny-size hail was blown into drifts with 580 acres of wheat damaged and 300 acres destroyed. Precipitation amounted to 2.20 inches. Crop damage amounted to $300,000.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McDonald	-	Winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph tore down five inch diameter branches.
June 1994	Tornado (F0)	McDonald	-	Brief tornado over open country observed by storm chaser.
July 1994	Hail	McDonald	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	McDonald	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	McDonald	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rawlins 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001428 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rawlins County	All 2 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.
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.