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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
Cossaart Barn
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 3040 Birch Rd., Narka, 66960
- When was it listed? December 2009
- Category. building
- Township. Albion township
- National Register reference number. 09001166 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cossaart Barn between 2014 and 2018, burning about 92 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800003 |
| 18 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800002 |
| 17 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 February 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500005 |
| 19 January 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500002 |
Storms near this property
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Narka, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Narka | $45,000 | A tornado formed southwest of Narka and moved northeast doing some damage to the community of Narka before crossing into Nebraska. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Narka | $6,000 | Strong winds blew the roof off of a barn and damaged several outbuildings at 2 farms. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Narka | $5,000 | Large tree limbs were blown in this area by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Narka | - | Damage survey noted damage to main grain elevator in town with a sporadic damage path noted to the southeast to trees limbs with lack of access further southeast unable to determine how much further southeast path occurred. Area primarily fallow field or newly planted corn so few DI to see from ground around end point. |
| October 2018 | Hail | Narka | - | Hail up to the size of quarters reported. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Narka | - | Estimated wind gust report. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Narka | - | Golf ball sized hail covering the ground. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Narka | - | EM provided information of tree limbs down southwest of Narka and radar corroborated spotter reports of a brief tornado southwest of Narka. No other damage was reported so this tornado was likely a brief touchdown. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Narka | - | Nickel size hail. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Narka | - | At least one tree was blown down. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Narka | - | A tornado touched down east of Narka and traveled a short distance before dissipating. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Narka | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Narka | - | A tornado touched down near Narka and traveled 1 mile before dissipating. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Narka | - | A tornado touched down briefly in open country. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Narka | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Narka | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Narka | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Narka | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Narka | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Narka | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Narka | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Site No. JF00-072 | 1.0 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09001166 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.