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Photograph of Drinkwater & Schriver Mill
Photograph by Mpetrus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cedar Point Mill

Built in 1871 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Drinkwater & Schriver Mill, also known as Cedar Point Mill, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2006. It is located in Cedar Point, Kansas, United States, in the heart of the Flint Hills.”

Wikipedia article Drinkwater & Schriver Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Chase County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1871, vernacular architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Main and First Sts., Cedar Point, 66843
  • When was it listed? December 2006
  • Category. building
  • Township. Cottonwood township
  • When was it built? 1871
  • Architectural style. vernacular architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06001166 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Point Mill between 2015 and 2017, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 March 2015Debris and open burning30 acresKansas Forest Service11
17 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use25 acresKansas Forest Service10
16 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service9
30 October 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKansas Forest Service39
10 January 2017Debris and open burning30 acresMarion County3

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Point, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindCedar Point$500Tree limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Chase 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Cottonwood River Pratt Truss Bridge0.8 miles2003
Clements Stone Arch Bridge5.1 miles1976
William C. & Jane Shaft House5.9 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06001166 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chase CountyAll 21 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.