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Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn

Built in 1926 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn is a historic Gothic-arch barn building northeast of Whitewater, Kansas, United States. It was built in a Late Gothic Revival style in 1926 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”

Wikipedia article Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1926, Gothic Revival.

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. 12464 NW Meadowlark, Whitewater, 67154
  • When was it listed? November 2005
  • Category. building
  • Township. Fairmount township
  • When was it built? 1926
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 05001202 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn between 2016 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service1600517
9 November 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this property

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitewater, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 23 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWhitewater1 hurt, $5,000Damaging thunderstorms winds hit eastern Butler County with speeds around 63 miles an hour. Three miles west of Towanda a tractor-semitrailer was overturned. A twenty-three year old woman was hit in the head with a 2 by 4 as she stood on her porch. She was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWhitewater$2,000Estimated 65 mph winds with tree branches knocked down in Whitewater.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWhitewater$100Relayed from KSN of downed trees in Whitewater.
April 2026HailWhitewater-The report was relayed from the local fire department.
June 2025Flash FloodWhitewater-Fire department reported street flooding in Potwin and Butler Road approximately 3 miles south of Whitewater which was impassible.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-Whitewater Fire Department estimated wind gusts around 70 to 80 mph. A storm survey the following day indicated similar wind speeds with tree limbs snapped and damage to an outbuilding's roof and siding which was tossed into the nearby field. There was a home just to the north which had siding ripped off along with damage to a silo. This damage suggested stronger winds closer to 90 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-There were six-inch tree branches downed.
June 2017HailWhitewater-This report via social media.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-A trained spotter reported the gust.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-The gust was reported by a trained spotter.
April 2010HailWhitewater-Hail was accompanied by 45 mph winds and torrential rain.
July 2010Heavy RainWhitewater-The emergency manager reported 5.0 inches over a twelve hour period.
July 2010Heavy RainWhitewater-Law enforcement reported 1.7 inches in 40 minutes with total rainfall of 5.00 inches just south of Whitewater. Potwin reported 4.00 inches.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-Severe thunderstorm winds ranged from 52-56kts.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-no account filed
April 2024HailWhitewater-no account filed
May 2019HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2016HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2011HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2011HailWhitewater-no account filed
April 2011HailWhitewater-no account filed
April 2011HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2005HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2005HailWhitewater-no account filed
April 2003HailWhitewater-no account filed
May 2003HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2003HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-no account filed
May 2002HailWhitewater-no account filed
April 2001HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2001HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-no account filed
June 2001HailWhitewater-no account filed
May 1999HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-no account filed
March 1997HailWhitewater-no account filed
March 1997HailWhitewater-no account filed
March 1997HailWhitewater-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWhitewater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001202 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler CountyAll 26 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.
  • 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.