BlockFrom the record
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Pottawatomie County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
German Evangelical Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. NE corner of 6th & State Sts., Westmoreland, 66549
- When was it listed? January 2018
- Category. building
- Township. Rock Creek township
- National Register reference number. 100001949 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of German Evangelical Church 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 |
Storms near this property
60 of 73 shownRegional 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 |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pottawatomie County Courthouse | 0.3 miles | 2018 |
 | John McKimmons Barn | 0.5 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001949 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.