Thornburg Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Ness County · listed in 2009 · 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. Co. Rd. A, 1.5 mi. W. of D Rd., Utica, 67584
When was it listed? April 2009
Category. building
Township. Ohio township
National Register reference number. 09000192 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Thornburg Barn in 2015, burning about 10 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	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
19 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	15U0919
14 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	15U1014

Every fire recorded in Ness County

Storms near this property

60 of 82 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Utica, the town this property stands in, in 82 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 59 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	$50,000	Ness County Sheriff's Office reported barn blown down and power poles down from thunderstorm winds.
September 2025	Hail	Utica	-	A public report of 1 inch hail.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Utica	-	Rainfall of 4.50 inches was observed. Most of the rain fell during the late evening hours.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	A large tree limb was broken by the high wind.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	Numerous tree branches of 2 to 4 inches were broken by the high wind.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
June 2014	Heavy Rain	Utica	-	Rainfall of 3.45 inches was reported at Utica.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	A few small tree limbs were blown down by the 60 MPH wind.
May 2013	Hail	Utica	-	There was also 1.05 of rainfall.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Utica	-	Water was reported over a road.
September 2012	Hail	Utica	-	Most of the hail was between ping pong ball and golf ball size with just a few between hen egg and tennis ball size.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	Winds were estimated to be at least 70 MPH. The roof off a barn was removed by the high wind and most outbuildings were damaged.
June 2010	Hail	Utica	-	Sporadic golf ball sized hail was reported.
June 2010	Hail	Utica	-	Smaller hail fell for about 30 hours from 530 PM until 830 PM.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Utica	-	Heavy rainfall of 4.00 fell in an hours time.
July 2009	Hail	Utica	-	The hail fell for 20 minutes.
July 2009	Hail	Utica	-	The hail ranged in size from pea to quarter sized.
July 2009	Hail	Utica	-	Quarter sized hail fell for 20 minutes.
July 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Utica	-	This tornado formed as the mesocyclone occluded but did not strike anything to cause damage.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	A cattle shed and lean two were destroyed by the high wind.
May 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Utica	-	The tornado curved back to the northwest before dissipating. It caused EF1 damage at a farm where a 40 by 60 foot shed was destroyed. The tornado also took down fencing.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	One to 1 1/2 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Utica	-	Rainfall of 3.34 inches was reported during the afternoon.
July 2007	Heavy Rain	Utica	-	Rainfall of 3.30 inches fell overnight.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	Several six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	Two to three inch diameter tree branches were broken by the wind.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	Two inch tree branches broken.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	Five inch tree limbs blown down.
August 2021	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Utica	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Utica	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ness 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000192 in Record Group 79.
Ness County	All 7 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.