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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Prescott Rural High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 202 West 4th St, Prescott, 66767
- When was it listed? July 2008
- Category. building
- Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
- Township. Sheridan township
- National Register reference number. 08000610 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
23 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Prescott Rural High School between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,858 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 624 |
| 10 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Linn County | 168 |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Bourbon County | 122 |
| 20 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 163 |
| 10 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Bourbon County | 128 |
| 1 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Prescott Rural High School: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freeto Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Prescott Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
16 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prescott, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 10 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Prescott | 2 hurt, $70,000 | Mobile home and old one room school house destroyed. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Prescott | $50,000 | An EF0 tornado briefly touched down 2 miles northeast of Prescott at 2157CST. The tornado traveled about one mile to the northeast before lifting at 2200CST. Several barns and sheds were damaged or destroyed.|Trees and power lines were also blown down by the winds. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Prescott | $35,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prescott | $5,000 | Several tree limbs up to 2 feet in diameter were reported down. The largest limb fell on a house, and caused considerable damage to the roof. A window was also broken from the fallen limb. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Prescott | - | Half dollar sized hail was reported in Prescott. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Prescott | - | Half dollar sized hail was reported in Prescott. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Prescott | - | This report was received via social media, at D's Truckstop. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Prescott | - | Linn County 911 dispatch reported multiple roads across the county were closed due to water flowing over the roads. |
| April 2014 | Tornado (EF2) | Prescott | - | This tornado path is a continuation of the same tornado that came out of Bourbon County. The most significant damage occurred as the tornado strengthened just north of the Linn and Bourbon County line. In rural Linn County, between Pleasanton, Kansas and Prescott, Kansas an outdoor garage storing heavy equipment was completely destroyed and nearly removed from its foundation. At this same location an empty semi trailer was tossed was tossed over 200 yards into a grove of trees and several other smaller vehicles were tossed about the property. Near Pleasanton, Kansas a church that was built in the 1880's was completely destroyed. The path of the tornado ended just east or southeast of Pleasanton in an open field. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Prescott | - | Numerous roads were closed near Prescott due to high water from the heavy rains. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Prescott | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Prescott | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Prescott | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Prescott | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Prescott | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Prescott | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prescott School | under 500 feet | 1982 | |
| Battle of Mine Creek Site | 5.1 miles | 1973 | |
 | Mine Creek Bridge | 5.3 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08000610 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Linn County | All 9 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.