Deeble Rock Garden

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 2017 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 126 Fairview Ave., Lucas, 67648
When was it listed? October 2017
Category. site
Township. Fairview township
National Register reference number. 100001705 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Deeble Rock Garden between 2009 and 2010, burning about 3,550 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	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
4 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,000 acres	Kansas Counties	CRAIG NALER
23 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	550 acres	Kansas Counties	LUCAS PARK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this property

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucas, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 23 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	$100,000	Home and building damage, large grain bins and an elevator leg destroyed as well as head stone damage and grave markers blown over.
April 2015	Hail	Lucas	$50,000	The emergency manager reported that virtually every car and roof sustained significant damage in Lucas. All of the skylights at the middle school were broken.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	$35,000	Winds estimated around 70 mph produced damage in Lucas. Main street received damage to several buildings, including a bowed out wall, broken windows, roof damage, and some car window damage.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	$20,000	Two 1,000 bushel grain bins destroyed with small sheds and stock tanks damaged. Widespread tree damage, including a large tree falling onto a mobile home as well as numerous power poles and power lines blown down.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	$10,000	Power lines blown down. (Reported by KRSL Radio).
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	$7,000	Considerable tree damage was reported across town with some damge to power lines.
May 1993	Tornado (F0)	Lucas	$5,000	A small tornado touched down over open country, did minor damage to one farmstead, and then dissipated.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	$500	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Lucas	-	Quarter to half dollar sized hail was reported with the time estimated from radar.
August 2021	Hail	Lucas	-	A measured fifty mph wind accompanied the hail.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	Report via Facebook.
June 2020	Hail	Lucas	-	Brief quarter sized hail but mainly dime sized. The hail storm lasted for about 3 minutes.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	The trained spotter estimated 60 to 70 mph winds that were breaking off branches of unknown diameters.
April 2017	Hail	Lucas	-	Hail size ranged from quarter to half dollar sized.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	The high wind gust was also accompanied by torrential rainfall.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	The gust was reported by a trained spotter.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	A few outbuildings were damaged or destroyed along with some downed power lines.
April 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Lucas	-	Occurred over open country.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	Winds were estimated around 65 mph.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter on Highway 18 near the county line.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	Law enforcement estimated 60 mph winds in and around the Lucas area.
February 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Lucas	-	Tornado touched down briefly in an open field near the intersection of West 196th Street and Mellard Road. No damage was reported.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	Tree damage.
August 2001	Tornado (F0)	Lucas	-	Occurred in open country.
May 1995	Tornado (F1)	Lucas	-	Tornado touched down 3 W Lucas and moved east along Highway 18 and then lifted as it left the town of Lucas. It destroyed a 100,000 buildings, grain bins partially removed the roof of a feed store and downed numerous trees and power lines.
April 2026	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lucas	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Lucas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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

2 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
	Garden of Eden	under 500 feet	1977
	Lucas School Gymnasium	0.2 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001705 in Record Group 79.
Russell County	All 17 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.