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One of 47 National Register listings published here for Wyandotte County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Roy Williamson House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Williamson, Roy, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1865 Edwardsville Dr., Edwardsville, 66111
- When was it listed? April 2007
- Category. building
- City. Edwardsville city
- National Register reference number. 07000311 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
119 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Roy Williamson House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 | 72 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2710174 |
| 24 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 23901 |
| 23 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Johnson County | 2660176 |
| 18 September 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 23365 |
| 12 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 22772 |
| 7 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wyandotte County | 732 |
| 3 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 639 |
| 14 August 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 209 |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Roy Williamson House: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonner Springs Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Tobin Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Underground Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Bonner Springs-Plant #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Builders #2 Dredge & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Muncie Plant #6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Superior Sand & Gravel Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edwardsville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 13 hail, 8 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edwardsville | $150,000 | Thunderstorm wind damage to the Great Wolf Lodge. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Edwardsville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edwardsville | - | Downed tree limbs near State Avenue near the Legends/Kansas Speedway area. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edwardsville | - | Downed tree and wires near Orchard Street in Edwardsville. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edwardsville | - | Downed wires south of the Kansas Speedway. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | Photo of two inch diameter hail just west of Edwardsville. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | Tennis ball sized hail in Edwardsville. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | Tennis ball sized hail in Edwardsville. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | This report was received via social media from 94th St and State Avenue. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edwardsville | - | Wind gust was measured at the intersection of Kansas Avenue and Interstate 435. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edwardsville | - | Tree blown down in street. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | Time Estimated. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edwardsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edwardsville | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Edwardsville | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Grinter Place | 3.3 miles | 1971 |
 | Bonner Springs High School | 3.4 miles | 2002 |
| Frank and Agnes Schmotz Farmstead | 4.3 miles | 2024 | |
| Whitefeather Spring | 7.9 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000311 in Record Group 79. |
| Wyandotte County | All 47 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.