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One of 11 National Register listings published here for Republic County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Cuba Blacksmith Shop
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1/2 block W. of Baird St. on the Lynn St., Cuba, 66940
- When was it listed? October 2009
- Category. building
- Township. Richland township
- National Register reference number. 09000810 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cuba Blacksmith Shop between 2015 and 2020, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800007 |
| 11 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500017 |
| 23 February 2020 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 18 February 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1600003 |
Storms near this property
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuba, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | $30,000 | Strong winds blew a 300 gallon fuel tank on top of a car. A barn was moved 12 feet off its foundation, and several feed bins were blown on top of the barn. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | $5,000 | Strong winds destroyed a garage. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Cuba | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | $2,000 | Strong winds downed power lines near Cuba. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Cuba | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Cuba | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | - | Machine shed and grain bin were blown over. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | - | Wind gusts measured at mesonet site. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuba | - | A member of the public reported a 60 mph wind gust near Cuba. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Cuba | - | Ground covered by quarter sized hail. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cuba | - | Report relayed via NSSL. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cuba | - | Report relayed via NSSL. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Cuba | - | A tornado touched down briefly in open country. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cuba | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Cuba | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000810 in Record Group 79. |
| Republic County | All 11 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.