Transue Brothers Blacksmith & Wagon Shop

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 309 Main St., Summerfield, 66541
When was it listed? December 2009
Category. building
Township. St. Bridget township
National Register reference number. 09001164 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Transue Brothers Blacksmith & Wagon Shop between 2007 and 2018, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
23 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Marshall County	120
17 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	134
5 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Marshall County	118
17 April 2007	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	78
5 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	128
19 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Marshall County	114
11 March 2015	Debris and open burning	120 acres	Kansas Forest Service	79

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerfield, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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 1999	Tornado (F1)	Summerfield	$1,000	A tornado touched down at a farm and lifted a machine shed over a house before destroying the shed.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Summerfield	$500	Heavy rain brought rapid flowing water over K-99.
May 2025	Hail	Summerfield	-	Ping pong ball size hail in Summerfield.
April 2023	Hail	Summerfield	-	Ping pong sized hail reported via social media.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	A portion of a roof on a home was blown off. 3 to 5 power poles were down as well.
April 2016	Hail	Summerfield	-	Reported via social media.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Summerfield	-	Road damage reported due to flash flooding at the intersection of 21st and Cherokee rd.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Wind gusts estimated.
September 2007	Hail	Summerfield	-	Spotter also reported 4 inches of rain had fallen in the past 2 hours.
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Summerfield	-	A tornado touched down southwest of Summerfield and traveled 1 mile over open country before dissipating.
June 2014	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
	St. Bridget Church	5.0 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001164 in Record Group 79.
Marshall County	All 22 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.