BlockFrom the record
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Cheyenne County · listed in 2008 · category: Site · built in 1934.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
St. Francis City Park
Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- Address. 300 Block of East Washington St., St. Francis, 67756
- When was it listed? July 2008
- Category. site
- Also known as. New Deal-Era Resources of Kansas MPS
- Township. Wano township
- When was it built? 1934
- National Register reference number. 08000645 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
13 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of St. Francis City Park between 2007 and 2020, burning about 9,018 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 | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 82415 |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Cheyenne County | 74171 |
| 1 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 10 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | Cheyenne County | 3617 |
| 6 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cheyenne County | 36171 |
| 5 March 2017 | Fireworks | 400 acres | Cheyenne County | 3517 |
| 1 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Francis City Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Francis Sand & Ready Mix | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cheyenne County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08000645 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Cheyenne County | All 3 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.