Uniontown Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Shawnee County · listed in 2010 · 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. NW Douglas Rd, Willard, 66615
When was it listed? May 2010
Category. site
Township. Dover township
National Register reference number. 10000263 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

38 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Uniontown Cemetery between 1996 and 2018, burning about 12,414 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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	21
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
19 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	17217
15 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shawnee County	95
7 May 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Shawnee County	7361
8 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	109
5 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	61
4 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	30
4 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	71
30 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	91

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this property

42 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willard, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 18 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2007	Flash Flood	Willard	$5,000	Carlson road a half mile south of Willard partially washed out due to flash flood.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	Many trees down around Willard. Thirteen-sixteen diameter tree limbs down as well.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	Wind gust of 60 mph reported.
April 2023	Hail	Willard	-	Quarter sized hail reported.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	Report of 30 inch diameter tree snapped off. A telephone pole also snapped on Carlson Road.
May 2020	Hail	Willard	-	Quarter hail reported.
April 2020	Hail	Willard	-	Quarter sized hail reported, along with 50 mph winds.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	Measured at Kansas Mesonet Station Rossville 2SE.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	A 3 inch diameter tree limb was snapped.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	Delayed report of 2 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs snapped.
April 2016	Flash Flood	Willard	-	Water rescue ongoing near 1900 NW Carlson Rd. Water is flowing over the roadway.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Willard	-	Reports of large amounts of flooding over streets and yards.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	An 18 inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Willard	-	On Carlson Rd traveling north towards interstate 70 there was 6 to 8 inches of water running over the roadway.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	Three power poles leaning over onto Carlson Rd.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	A 6 inch diameter tree limb broke near Rossville.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	Broadcast media and Emergency Managers in Shawnee County reported several 60 to 70 mph wind gusts. Power outages were reported from Willard, Rossville, Silver Lake, and north Topeka.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	Seven inch diameter tree limbs broken.
June 2011	Flood	Willard	-	The Kansas River at this location was reported out of its banks on both sides of the river.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	An empty semi-trailer was blown off of the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 near mile marker 336. Portions of the road along the eastbound lanes were closed.
June 2006	Hail	Willard	-	Two reports of 1 inch diameter hail were received from Willard, with one being reported just north of the Kansas River. Three minor accidents also occurred about 1 mile east of Willard on Interstate 70, caused by slick roads and backed up traffic. One indirect injury was reported in the accidents.
June 2006	Hail	Willard	-	Report relayed via NSSL.
May 2019	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Willard	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Willard	-	no account filed
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	Willard	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Blacksmith Creek Bridge	8.0 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000263 in Record Group 79.
Shawnee County	All 108 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.