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Paradise Water Tower

Built in 1938 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Paradise Water Tower, of Paradise, Kansas, United States, is a historic Works Progress Administration project of 1938. It is located east of the intersection of Waldo and Main Sts. in Paradise.”

Wikipedia article Paradise Water Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1938, Art Deco architecture.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of int. of Waldo and Main Sts., Paradise, 67658
  • When was it listed? January 2007
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Paradise township
  • When was it built? 1938
  • Architectural style. Art Deco architecture, vernacular architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06001242 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Water Tower between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,827 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 use4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
24 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKansas Forest Service150021
4 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service180014
8 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service180010
10 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2015Debris and open burning200 acresKansas Forest Service150004
27 March 2017Naturalunder an acreRussell County170016
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,600 acresRussell CountyANGEL GRASS FIRE
21 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service160003

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this property

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paradise, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 26 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011HailParadise$300,000Several home roofs and vehicles were damaged countywide by golfball to baseball size hail. The exact number of roofs and vehicles damaged in unknown, so property damage amounts are rough estimates.
May 2002Tornado (F1)Paradise$170,000Damaged outbuildings and power lines.
June 2011HailParadise$30,000The hail damaged some cars. Damage amounts are rough estimates.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindParadise$1,000Road signs were blown over near the county line.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindParadise$50no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindParadise-A trained spotter reported the gust.
May 2023HailParadise-Two inch diameter tree limbs were also blown down.
May 2021Flash FloodParadise-The main street in Paradise is impassable with water over the roads. They have begun to evacuate the community. There was a water rescue for a family of 4 just west of Paradise. Many other county roads in the vicinity were also covered with water and impasable.
May 2018FloodParadise-The very heavy rains caused such significant rises on the Saline River that it overflowed around Fairport. Fairport Road was flooded at both the east and west entrances into Fairport. One section of Fairport Road was flooded 2 to 4 feet deep near the river bridges. Sand bags were placed around 1 home. Flooding also occurred about 1 mile southeast of Fairport on 176th Street.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindParadise-One foot diameter tree limbs were downed near 179th and Decker by winds that ranged from 70 to 80 mph.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Paradise-Rain wrapped rope tornado that briefly touched the ground. The tornado was 40 yards wide.
April 2013Tornado (EF0)Paradise-A brief rope tornado was reported and caused damage to a few trees along Paradise Rd. Initial reports of damage to a barn and radio shed were deemed as old damage from a previous storm.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindParadise-Shingles were blown off the roof of a home.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindParadise-Winds were estimated by law enforcement.
June 2011Flash FloodParadise-Heavy rainfall amounts exceeding 2 inches from the evening on the 1st into the overnight hours produced widespread flooding across mainly northern and northeast portions of Russell county. Numerous rural roads were closed due to high water. Additionally, various small streams and creeks were running bankfull, especially in the vicinity of Wolf Creek. Unfortunately, any property damage that may have occurred as a result of the flooding is unknown.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindParadise-A trained spotter reported the gust along with dime size hail.
May 2003HailParadise-AGTAP Spotter RS101.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindParadise-Tree damage.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindParadise-Tree damage.
May 2018HailParadise-no account filed
May 2018HailParadise-no account filed
May 2018HailParadise-no account filed
August 2015HailParadise-no account filed
April 2015HailParadise-no account filed
May 2013HailParadise-no account filed
May 2011HailParadise-no account filed
June 2011HailParadise-no account filed
July 2010HailParadise-no account filed
May 2008HailParadise-no account filed
May 2008HailParadise-no account filed
June 2008HailParadise-no account filed
May 2002HailParadise-no account filed
May 2002HailParadise-no account filed
May 2002HailParadise-no account filed
July 2002HailParadise-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindParadise-no account filed
October 2001HailParadise-no account filed
August 2001HailParadise-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindParadise-no account filed
June 2000HailParadise-no account filed
June 2000HailParadise-no account filed
May 1999HailParadise-no account filed
June 1998HailParadise-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindParadise-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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

1 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
Kennedy Hotel0.3 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06001242 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Russell CountyAll 17 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.