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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Wabaunsee County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wabaunsee District #1 Grammar School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 56 Center St., Wabaunsee, 66547
- When was it listed? November 2005
- Category. building
- Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
- Township. Wabaunsee township
- National Register reference number. 05001238 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
28 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Wabaunsee District #1 Grammar School between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,914 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 | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18505 |
| 4 July 2018 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176021 |
| 2 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176012 |
| 29 June 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176000 |
| 7 April 2018 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18195 |
| 6 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 28 |
| 3 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 acres | Kansas Forest Service | FLINT ROCK |
| 9 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 31 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wabaunsee District #1 Grammar School: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mc Carter Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wamego Sand Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
28 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wabaunsee, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Wabaunsee | $50,000 | K-18 closed near the town of Wabaunsee. Water over the highway. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | $3,000 | Strong winds blew down a tree limb, broke some windows, and overturned some sheds northeast of Wabaunsee. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | Spotter reported ping pong ball size hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | Hail ranging from pea size to quarter size. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Wabaunsee | - | Radar and NWS storm survey data indicated that the small tornado moved across open field and produced low end EF1 tree damage and tossed a grain storage container as it moved back toward the Kansas river the border of Pottawatomie county again. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Power poles knotted down. Could have been associated with a tornado. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Hayshed destroyed, widespread tree damage and limbs broken, one large tree snapped 4 feet up from the base. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Report of 60 mph wind gust. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Report of 70 mph wind gust. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Sheriff reported construction equipment blown down. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Trained spotter reports 75 mph wind gust. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | A large tree down near highway 99 and mitchell prairie lane. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Large limb on roof. Wind to 60 mph estimated. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Wabaunsee | - | Water flowing over K-18 highway. KDOT responding to area to close road. |
| March 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Wabaunsee | - | This was an intermittent tornado with visual confirmation|on at least 4 separate occasions along its 16 mile track, including 3 |miles S of St George, 2 miles S of Wamego, 3 miles SW of Belvue, and SW |of St Marys. This tornado produced minimal damage along its track. Time |estimated based on individual reports and radar data. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Wabaunsee | - | Wells creek was flooded at Cornflower rd and Cotton rd. Other flash flooding had been reported in Paxico and also K-18 and Mount Mitchell rd. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Several tree limbs down. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | An old tree 12 inches in diameter was blown down. Pea sized hail as well. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wabaunsee | - | Small diameter tree limbs down. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Wabaunsee | - | no account filed |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Beecher Bible and Rifle Church | 0.2 miles | 1971 |
| Pratt-Mertz Barn | 2.4 miles | 2020 | |
| Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Historic District | 2.6 miles | 2022 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05001238 in Record Group 79. |
| Wabaunsee County | All 20 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.