Dunlap Colored Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“Dunlap Colored Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 2050 S. 100 Road in Dunlap, Kansas. The cemetery was established in 1880 as part of the Dunlap Colony, a community of Exodusters, or African-American former slaves who moved from the South to Kansas after emancipation.”
Wikipedia article Dunlap Colored Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Morris County · listed in 2018 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 2050 S 100 Rd., Dunlap, 66846
When was it listed? September 2018
Category. site
Township. Township 1
National Register reference number. 100002967 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dunlap Colored Cemetery between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,053 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	6
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	44
15 July 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Morris County	8
11 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	25
19 April 2018	Debris and open burning	900 acres	Kansas Forest Service	18
24 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	9
13 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	18
10 March 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	8
18 February 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Storms near this property

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunlap, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 13 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
August 2005	Flash Flood	Dunlap	$70,000	Fast flowing water closed Dunlap road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	$500	A COOP Observer near Dunlap reported two to three inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Dunlap	$500	Fast flowing water over 4 mile road near Dunlap.
April 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Dunlap	-	NWS damage survey revealed a small tornado did damage to a single family home and a few outbuildings and cabins on the northeast side of Lake Kahola. The short damage path was discontinuous with portions of the short track having been untouched. The greatest degree of damage occurred to outbuildings that were destroyed and walls were tossed into another cabin. This tornado was rated a EF1 with winds to around 110 mph.
September 2025	Hail	Dunlap	-	Delayed report from southern Morris County. Time estimated from radar.
April 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Dunlap	-	Results of an NWS damage survey revealed tree damage and damage to a home approximately 3 miles SSW of Dunlap, Kansas. The home had portions of the roof removed and windows broken. This appeared to be the end of the tornado track that moved north out of Chase County. The tornado appears to have crossed from Chase into Morris County around 905pm and ended around 908 pm CDT based on radar data. Based on DOD to DI winds estimated to be around 95 mph.
May 2021	Flash Flood	Dunlap	-	Multiple roads closed, including Dunlap Road in the southeastern part of the county.
May 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Dunlap	-	A chaser reported a rope tornado that lasted 1-2 mins in open country approximately 5 miles west of Dunlap in southeast Morris County. No damage was reported.
May 2017	Flash Flood	Dunlap	-	Dunlap Road was closed due to water across the road.
July 2010	Flood	Dunlap	-	Rock Creek was reported to be out of its banks near Dunlap.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Dunlap	-	Dunlap Road near Dunlap and X Avenue near Burdick are closed due to flooding. Highway 149 near Wilsey was inundated with water.
May 2013	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
March 2009	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	-	no account filed
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	Dunlap	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Dunlap	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunlap	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morris 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
Little John Creek Reserve	4.7 miles	2001
Furney Farm	7.5 miles	2006
Big John Farm Limestone Bank Barn	7.6 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002967 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morris County	All 27 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.