Ranson Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Reno County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4918 E. Main, Medora, 67502
When was it listed? November 2008
Category. building
Township. Medora township
National Register reference number. 08001067 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

83 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Ranson Hotel between 2004 and 2018, burning about 4,951 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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	28
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
4 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2959
4 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Reno County	2336
30 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2572
29 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2863
28 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Reno County	51
24 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2520
20 July 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2471
10 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2372

Every fire recorded in Reno County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medora, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2007: 2 hail, 1 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
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Medora	-	Large limbs downed.
May 2007	Hail	Medora	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Medora	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reno County

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

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wall-Ratzlaff House	4.3 miles	1992
John P. O. Graber House	6.4 miles	1994
Frank D. Wolcott House	6.9 miles	1994
G.W. Norris House	7.3 miles	2009
St. Theresa's Catholic Church	7.6 miles	1994
Kansas Sugar Refining Company Mill	7.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001067 in Record Group 79.
Reno County	All 22 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.