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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mahaska Rural High School #3
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. S. School St., Mahaska, 66955
- When was it listed? June 2007
- Category. building
- Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
- Township. Union township
- Architectural style. Gothic Revival
- National Register reference number. 07000604 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mahaska Rural High School #3 between 2014 and 2018, burning about 109 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800003 |
| 18 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800002 |
| 17 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500005 |
| 19 January 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500002 |
Storms near this property
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahaska, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Mahaska | $75,000 | A tornado touched down in Mahaska and produced considerable damage to homes and buildings. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Mahaska | $8,000 | Large hail broke windows and damaged roofs and buildings. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mahaska | $6,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged 2 buildings. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mahaska | - | Dime size hail also reported. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mahaska | - | A trained weather spotter near Mahaska reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mahaska | - | Near Mahaska a trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust. A school mesonet station near Washington measured a 69 mph wind gust. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Mahaska | - | Hail was nickel size for the most part, with a few stones to the size of quarters. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Mahaska | - | A tornado touched down near Mahaska and traveled 1 mile before dissipating. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Mahaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Mahaska | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Mahaska | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Mahaska | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000604 in Record Group 79. |
| Washington County | All 7 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.