Hopkins House

Built in 1859 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Hopkins House is located in Tecumseh, Kansas, USA. There are three contributing structures on the property; the house and barn, both built around 1859 and a coal shed built around 1920.”
Wikipedia article Hopkins House (Tecumseh, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Shawnee County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1859, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6033 SE US Hwy. 40, Tecumseh, 66542
When was it listed? January 2009
Category. building
Township. Tecumseh township
When was it built? 1859
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 08001353 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

173 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Hopkins House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 991 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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
Debris and open burning	72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	64
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Fireworks	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee County	15240
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	16182
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Shawnee County	951
21 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Shawnee County	938
16 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1024
15 September 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1017
5 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	876
5 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee County	13136

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hopkins House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	East Topeka Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tecumseh, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2001	Lightning	Tecumseh	$150,000	Lightning struck a house and ignited a fire that did extensive damage to the structure. No one was injured.
June 1996	Flash Flood	Tecumseh	$5,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Tree damage reported.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Report from mping of three inch tree limbs down and power poles broken.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Report from mping.
April 2020	Hail	Tecumseh	-	Report received from mping.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Tecumseh	-	Report of water over the roadway at the intersection of Highway 40 and Shawnee Heights Road.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Tecumseh	-	Report from an NWS Employee of water 6 inches deep flowing across SE Shawnee Heights Road near the intersection of Highway 40.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Tree limbs 2 to 4 inches in diameter down. Time estimated from radar.
May 2013	Hail	Tecumseh	-	Photo via social media.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Reports of roof damage to homes. Also widespread reports of trees and power lines down across the county from the emergency manager.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Half of roof blown off house with many trees blown down.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Many trees down along second street from Croco Rd to Tecumseh.
May 2014	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
February 2002	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
April 2001	Flash Flood	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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
England Farm	3.8 miles	1982
Mount Auburn Cemetery	5.4 miles	2025
Fire Station No. 6	5.5 miles	2020
ATSF Motive Power Building	5.8 miles	2012
Horace G. Lyons House	6.3 miles	1984
Fire Station No. 1	6.4 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001353 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shawnee County	All 108 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.