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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Pottawatomie County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1870, Colonial Revival architecture.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Teske Farmstead
Built in 1870 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 20795 Major Jenkins Rd., Onaga, 66521
- When was it listed? April 2009
- Category. building
- Township. Mill Creek township
- When was it built? 1870
- Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 09000193 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
18 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Teske Farmstead between 2015 and 2018, burning about 100 acres in total. None 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 | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 4012 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1175929 |
| 6 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-12 |
| 6 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-11 |
| 5 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-10 |
| 31 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-19 |
| 28 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-17 |
| 21 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2016-16 |
Storms near this property
22 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onaga, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2009: 13 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Onaga | $10,000 | Water over many rural roads due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onaga | $2,000 | Strong winds blew the roof off a shed several hundred feet. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Onaga | $1,000 | Torrential rains brought about 6 inches of fast flowing water across roads in the area. |
| May 2000 | Lightning | Onaga | $1,000 | Lightning did minor damage to a home near Onaga. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF2) | Onaga | - | This is the first segment of an EF-2 tornado that began in Pottawatomie County, moved northeast into Jackson County and continued northeast into Nemaha County before dissipating. This is segment 1 of 3 for the tornado path. In Pottawatomie County the tornado touched down near a farmstead south of Havensville and compromised some of the external walls of a residence as well as tearing a large portion of the roof off of the residence. Extensive damage was noted to outbuildings and trees near the residence. The tornado continued northeast damaging mainly rural areas of northeastern Pottawatomie County damaging trees and power poles. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Onaga | - | Law enforcement reported a brief tornado touchdown at 4:48 pm cst 2 miles east of Onaga. The tornado caused no damage. It was an F0 tornado with a path width of 50 yards or less and was on the ground for a tenth of a mile. The tornado formed from a parent supercell thunderstorm. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Onaga | - | Flash flooding resulted from heavy rains. A man was rescued from a vehicle that became stalled in flood waters 5 miles south of Onaga. Flash flooding also occurred in Wamego and other locations in the county doing extensive crop damage and flooding several roads and businesses. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Onaga | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Vermillion Creek Tributary Stone Arch Bridge | 7.8 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000193 in Record Group 79. |
| Pottawatomie County | All 14 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.