First Congregational Church

Built in 1873 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“First Congregational Church is a church at 502 South National Avenue in Fort Scott, Kansas. The Gothic Revival church was built in 1872-73 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article First Congregational Church (Fort Scott, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1873, Gothic Revival.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 502 S. National Ave., Fort Scott, 66701
When was it listed? March 2005
Category. building
Township. Scott township
When was it built? 1873
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 05000200 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of First Congregational Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	45
Debris and open burning	15
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
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
26 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1054
24 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fort Scott National Historic Site	PRAIRIE
10 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1000
2 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	189
5 July 2015	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	754
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	161
24 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
2 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of First Congregational Church: 1 plant, 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Cullor Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Ft. Scott Pottery Co.	Clay	Plant

Every working recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Scott, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Scott	$500	Trees were blown down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Scott	$500	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Scott	-	Windows blown out in the city of Fort Scott. Large trees and power lines downed.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Scott	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Fort Scott	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Fort Scott	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
Thomas L. and Anna B. Herbert House	under 500 feet	2021
Claude and Alberta Brant House	0.3 miles	2022
Moody Building	0.4 miles	1977
Fort Scott Public Carnegie Library	0.4 miles	1987
Fort Scott Downtown Historic District	0.4 miles	2009
Union Block	0.4 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bourbon County	All 14 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.