Sylvia Rural High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Reno County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 203 Old KS 50, Sylvia, 67581
When was it listed? November 2005
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
Township. Sylvia township
National Register reference number. 05001247 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sylvia Rural High School between 1997 and 2012, burning about 1,705 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
23 June 2011	Natural	under an acre	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	SALTMARSH ROAD
24 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	392 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	OASIS
15 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	SYLVIA RD
3 October 2005	Smoking	1,300 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	NETHERLAND
2 October 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	MCNICKLE

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Storms near this property

60 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sylvia, the town this property stands in, in 73 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 34 thunderstorm wind, 33 hail, 3 tornado, 2 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
April 2015	Hail	Sylvia	$5,000	The Emergency manager also estimated wind gusts of 70 mph.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	$5,000	A large tree limb was knocked down from estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. The report was relayed via social media.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	$5,000	High winds downed a tree onto a house.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	$2,000	A tree was downed on a power line, and 8 to 10-inch diameter limbs were downed.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	$500	High winds knocked down 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	$500	A path of tree damage extended from Sylvia to Hutchinson.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	$500	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Sylvia	-	The report was relayed via social media.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	A cargo van box that had been on the ground for a few years blew over north of Sylvia. A 12 inch diameter tree limb broke just north of the city as well. Multiple small limbs were reported down too.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Four inch tree limbs were reported down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Tree limbs of eight inches in diameter were down, and trees were split. Time is based on previous reports.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Damage to a barn was reported.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	A delayed report was received of a 2-foot diameter, well-established cedar tree that was snapped near the base.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	The town of Sylvia lost power.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	A tree with an 8-inch diameter trunk was uprooted in Sylvia.
September 2017	Flood	Sylvia	-	Olcott Rd. was closed between Red Rock and Longview Rds due to high water.
May 2016	Hail	Sylvia	-	The hail was dime to quarter size.
May 2016	Flood	Sylvia	-	Several roads across the county were flooded. The worst were along Cow Creek in the northern sections of the county.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	The winds were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	The emergency manager estimated the gust.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Snapped power poles were reported as were blown out tree limbs.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	The emergency manager estimated 60 mph wind gusts with power outages.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	The emergency manager estimated 70 mph gusts and ping pong ball sized hail.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Wind report was estimated.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Zero visibilities were also reported in the area.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Estimated gust reported by trained spotter.
May 2012	Hail	Sylvia	-	The hail was covering the yard.
September 2009	Hail	Sylvia	-	A public report of one inch hail.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Winds estimated by Emergency management spotters.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	Three-inch diameter limbs fell onto cars.
May 2002	Tornado (F0)	Sylvia	-	Remained in the country.
May 2002	Tornado (F0)	Sylvia	-	Breif touchdown in open country.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	NUMEROUS TREES & POWER LINES DOWNED.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	no account filed
April 2019	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sylvia	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Sylvia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno 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 05001247 in Record Group 79.
Reno County	All 22 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.