John McKimmons Barn

Built in 1860. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Pottawatomie County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1860.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McKimmons, John, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. KS HWY 99, 1/4 mile S of Westmoreland or 1/2 miles N of Hartwich Rd, Westmoreland, 66549
When was it listed? April 2010
Category. building
Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
Township. Pottawatomie township
When was it built? 1860
National Register reference number. 10000178 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of John McKimmons Barn between 2004 and 2006, burning about 8,000 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

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
7 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7,000 acres	Kansas Forest Service	KRAUSE
3 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Kansas Forest Service	BOOTH CREEK
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	800 acres	Kansas Counties	HOOD GRASS

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this property

60 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westmoreland, the town this property stands in, in 73 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 50 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	$7,000	Strong winds blew part of the roof off of a trailer home.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	$5,000	Winds hit 77 mph at the Jeffrey Energy power plant.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Estimated 70 mph winds, also power out across town.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Wind gust of 60 mph reported, along with pea to nickel sized hail.
September 2023	Hail	Westmoreland	-	Nickel sized hail reported.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Power outages and 12 to 24 inch tree limbs down.
July 2020	Hail	Westmoreland	-	Reports of several large hailstones falling, including golf ball and baseball sized hail.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Estimated wind gust.
October 2014	Hail	Westmoreland	-	Wind gusts up to 60 mph.
April 2013	Hail	Westmoreland	-	Nickle to quarter sized hail.
June 2013	Hail	Westmoreland	-	Report from social media...time estimated from radar.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	A few 4 to 5 inch tree limbs were found broken the next morning. This was a delayed report. Time was estimated from radar and other reports.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	In Westmoreland a couple mailboxes were blown down.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Strong winds caused widespread damage across Pottawatomie County. Large diameter trees ranging from 5 to 20 feet in diameter were snapped.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Spotter estimates winds of 60 to 65 mph.
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	Half dollar sized hail collected on the ground.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Trained spotters throughout Pottawatomie County reported 60 to 65 mph wind gusts. In Westmoreland and Onaga 3 to 4 inch tree limbs were broken.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	A trained spotter reported 60 mph winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Cottonwood tree blown down over a road west of the town of Westmoreland.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	Garage damage, trees snapped, power lines down
September 1993	Tornado (F0)	Westmoreland	-	A small weak tornado hit briefly in an open field.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	A wind gust to 55 kts was reported by weather spotters.
July 2020	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
March 2009	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
March 2009	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Westmoreland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
German Evangelical Church	0.5 miles	2018
Pottawatomie County Courthouse	0.7 miles	2018
Joseph Heptig Barn	7.9 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000178 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.