S.D. Robinett Building

Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Kiowa County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1915.

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.
Listed as. Robinett, S.D., Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 148 S. Main, Greensburg, 67054
When was it listed? February 2009
Category. building
Township. Kiowa Rural township
When was it built? 1915
National Register reference number. 09000029 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of S.D. Robinett Building between 2012 and 2016, burning about 437 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
15 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015017
21 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	420 acres	Kansas Counties	2012019 GRASS
12 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015009
4 December 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015021
22 January 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2016003

Every fire recorded in Kiowa County

Storms near this property

60 of 172 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greensburg, the town this property stands in, in 172 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 113 hail, 37 thunderstorm wind, 14 tornado, 6 heavy rain. 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 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	$70,000	Pivot sprinkler overturned...siding stripped off a house and a shed was destroyed.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	$50,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	$30,000	All out buildings destroyed.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	$10,000	Barn destroyed and trees uprooted.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	$8,000	Downburst removed a tin roof off a building and damaged part of the wall.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	$5,000	Roof blown off a modular home under construction
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	$2,000	Four power poles were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	$1,500	Power poles blown down.
May 2025	Tornado (EF3)	Greensburg	-	A NWS storm survey confirmed reports of a tornado. Some damage included broken power poles, tree trunk snaped, an irrigation pivot broken and tossed.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	A personal weather station, Kents station, recorded a 71 mph wind gust.
September 2025	Hail	Greensburg	-	A storm chaser reported 1 inch hail.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	A 65 mph wind gust was reported.
May 2024	Heavy Rain	Greensburg	-	Rainfall report of 2.39 inches.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	There was significant tree damage.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	There was roof damage.
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	There was single damage to a roof.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH. One to two inch diameter tree branches were broken by the high wind.
September 2019	Hail	Greensburg	-	Mostly dime sized hail was observed but a few the size of a quarter were noted.
September 2018	Flood	Greensburg	-	Water was flowing across highway 183.
May 2018	Flood	Greensburg	-	Flood water in fields spilled out onto several county roads.
May 2018	Hail	Greensburg	-	Hail was around 6 inches deep. Hail fog formed and reduced the visibility.
June 2017	Hail	Greensburg	-	Golf ball and baseball sized hail was observed.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
December 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Greensburg	-	This QLCS damaged a few trees and destroyed a small shed and carried the debris around 100 yards.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Greensburg	-	Rainfall of 4.65 was reported.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	A very large tree branch was blown down across a power line.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
April 2012	Hail	Greensburg	-	Hail ranged from golf ball to tennis ball size.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Wind gusts of 60 MPH were reported.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	The home lost shingles due to the high wind gusts.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Greensburg	-	Rainfall of 1.48 was observed.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Greensburg	-	Rainfall of 1.90 was observed.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	An 80 foot tall pine tree was uprooted. This appeared to be the forward flank downdraft of a large rotating supercell thunderstorm.
August 2010	Heavy Rain	Greensburg	-	Rainfall of 2.53 was observed.
June 2010	Heavy Rain	Greensburg	-	Rainfall of 3.66 was reported.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	The storm chaser estimated winds of 60 mph.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Greensburg	-	This was a small tornado that passed over farmland.
May 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Greensburg	-	While doing a storm survey and in the town of Greensburg, this tornado was observed moving rapidly north but west of Greensburg. It did EF1 damage to a barn.
May 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Greensburg	-	This was another satellite tornado (to the big Greensburg tornado) that appeared to be anticyclonic. It did not strike anything.
May 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Greensburg	-	Yet another satellite tornado associated with the large Greensburg tornado. This satellite tornado did not strike anything to damage.
September 2006	Tornado (F0)	Greensburg	-	This was very brief tornado.
April 2003	Tornado (F0)	Greensburg	-	This weak tornado (Landspout) drifted northeast without hitting anything.
May 2002	Tornado (F0)	Greensburg	-	This was a very brief tornado (but not a gustnado).
May 2002	Tornado (F1)	Greensburg	-	This very large tornado moved straight east and entered Pratt county at 1856 CST. At times the circulation was over a mile wide.
May 2001	Hail	Greensburg	-	Hail swath in the vicinity was 13 miles long and 2 miles wide. Considerable of crop damage.
June 2001	Tornado (F0)	Greensburg	-	Brief contact with the ground from this landspout.
March 2000	Tornado (F0)	Greensburg	-	Tornado started in Kiowa county but did the damage in Edwards county.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Five inch diameter branches broken.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensburg	-	Large tree limbs blown down.
April 1994	Tornado (F0)	Greensburg	-	Tornado touched down briefly over open farm land. This tornado was probably spawned from the same storm which tracked across Seward, Meade, and Clark Counties.
May 1993	Tornado (F0)	Greensburg	-	Tornado moved over open farmland with no damage or injuries reported.
October 2023	Hail	Greensburg	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Greensburg	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Greensburg	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Greensburg	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Greensburg	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Greensburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kiowa 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Greensburg Well	under 500 feet	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000029 in Record Group 79.
Kiowa 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.
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.