Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
From the record
“Big Brutus is the nickname of the Bucyrus-Erie model 1850-B electric power shovel, which was the second largest of its type in operation in the 1960s and 1970s. Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations.”
Wikipedia article Big Brutus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Cherokee County · listed in 2018 · category: Object.
National Register reference number. 100001945 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
24 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Big Brutus
between 2015 and 2018, burning about 93 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
19
Debris and open burning
4
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
West Mineral, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 25 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 3 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.
Flooding continued along Cherry and Lightning Creeks which were impacting several low water roads and bridges. Emergency management officials performed a water rescue along flooded Cherry Creek, where a vehicle had driven into the flood waters. The water rescue occurred at the intersection of NW 60th Street where it crosses Cherry Creek. No injuries resulted from the water rescue.
One to three and a half inches of rain fell over Cherokee County. Widespread flooding along creeks and mainstem rivers occurred. The Spring River experienced moderate flooding while Cherry and Lightning creeks flooded lowlands along these streams. Numerous county roads flooded.
Several locations across Cherokee County experienced flash flooding due to excessive rain. A few specific locations that flooded included a section of Centerstar Road, a section of Highway 7 north of Columbus, a section of Southwest 110th Street and a section of Southwest 120th Street.
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.
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.
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