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One of 17 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Kennedy Hotel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 117 Third St., Paradise, 67658
- When was it listed? January 2007
- Category. building
- Township. Paradise township
- National Register reference number. 06001244 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
10 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Kennedy Hotel between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,907 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150021 |
| 4 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 180014 |
| 8 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 180010 |
| 18 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 10 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150004 |
| 27 March 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Russell County | 170016 |
| 13 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,600 acres | Russell County | ANGEL GRASS FIRE |
Storms near this property
44 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Hail | Paradise | $300,000 | Several 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 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Paradise | $170,000 | Damaged outbuildings and power lines. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Paradise | $30,000 | The hail damaged some cars. Damage amounts are rough estimates. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | $1,000 | Road signs were blown over near the county line. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | $50 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | A trained spotter reported the gust. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Paradise | - | Two inch diameter tree limbs were also blown down. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Paradise | - | 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 2018 | Flood | Paradise | - | 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | One foot diameter tree limbs were downed near 179th and Decker by winds that ranged from 70 to 80 mph. |
| April 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Paradise | - | Rain wrapped rope tornado that briefly touched the ground. The tornado was 40 yards wide. |
| April 2013 | Tornado (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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | Shingles were blown off the roof of a home. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | Winds were estimated by law enforcement. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Paradise | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | A trained spotter reported the gust along with dime size hail. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Paradise | - | AGTAP Spotter RS101. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | Tree damage. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | Tree damage. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Paradise | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paradise | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Paradise Water Tower | 0.3 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 06001244 in Record Group 79. |
| Russell County | All 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.