BlockFrom the record
One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Willow Springs Santa Fe Trail Segment and DAR Marker
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. N 550 & E 1100 Rds., Baldwin City, 66006
- When was it listed? April 2019
- Category. district
- Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
- Township. Willow Springs township
- National Register reference number. 100002964 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
40 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Willow Springs Santa Fe Trail Segment and DAR Marker between 2015 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 41 |
| 22 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Douglas County | 237 |
| 19 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 23 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 8 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 28 |
| 8 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 77 |
Storms near this property
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Baldwin City | $1,000,000 | A small tornado formed along the north edge of a strong downburst and moved mainly across open fields. The tornado skipped across the county destroying several farm buildings, a motorhome and farm equipment. However, with widespread straightline wind damage in the area, it was difficult to distinguish between the cause(s) of the damage. The most significant damage occurred along and about one to two miles west of highway 33. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baldwin City | $20,000 | High winds tore down power poles and lines knocking out electricity for several hours. |
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Elmwood Stock Farm Barn | 1.2 miles | 2022 |
 | Marion Springs School | 3.1 miles | 2018 |
 | Chicken Creek Bridge | 3.5 miles | 1990 |
| Stoebener Barn | 4.2 miles | 1989 | |
| Kansas Homestead of Thomas McQuill(i)an | 4.5 miles | 2021 | |
| Lone Star Lake Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp | 4.5 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002964 in Record Group 79. |
| Douglas County | All 118 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.