Municipal Auditorium and City Hall

Built in 1938 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Museum of the Great Plains, in Leoti, Kansas, in Wichita County, Kansas, is a local history museum founded in 1982. It includes the 1892-built Washington-Ames House.”
Wikipedia article Municipal Auditorium and City Hall (Leoti, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Wichita County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1938, vernacular architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 201 N. 4th St., Leoti, 67861
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. building
Also known as. New Deal-Era Resources of Kansas MPS
Township. Leoti township
When was it built? 1938
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 100003427 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Municipal Auditorium and City Hall in 2017, burning about 3 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	1
Debris and open burning	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
21 June 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wichita County	19
9 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Wichita County	7

Every fire recorded in Wichita County

Storms near this property

60 of 205 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leoti, the town this property stands in, in 205 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 138 hail, 52 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 5 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2022	Hail	Leoti	1 hurt	Multiple reports of hail associated with second storm that moved through Leoti. Hail ranged in size from half-dollar to baseball in size over a duration of 10 minutes. Hail busted windows in a home and damaged a car. There was one injury where someone was hit in the head by the large hail while retrieving a dog stuck outside.
May 1999	Hail	Leoti	$800,000	Hail broke out windows in house.
May 1999	Hail	Leoti	$800,000	no account filed
June 1999	Tornado (F3)	Leoti	$250,000	A large tornado (F3) destroyed a farmstead. The house was nearly flattened by the tornado, and a tractor and grain combine/harvester were rolled several hundred feet. Tornado moved from East to West.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	$100,000	A feed yard northwest of Leoti, KS suffered damage from strong thunderstorm outflows. About 20% of the feed warehouse roof was removed. Two smaller wood-frame metal-skin sheds were heavily damaged. Four by eight foot hay bales were blown a short distance. Three irrigation pivots just south of the feed yard were overturned. All debris was blown from SSW to NNE.
May 1996	Tornado (F1)	Leoti	$50,000	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	$25,000	Report received of 5 power poles broken on the NW side of town due to thunderstorm wind gusts. Time is radar estimated and estimated wind gust speed is based on storm damage.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	$10,000	Door blown in on west end of building. Numerous windows broken at school.
July 1994	Hail	Leoti	$5,000	Hail broke windshields.
May 1993	Hail	Leoti	$5,000	Baseball-size hail damaged paint and roof.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	$1,000	A small metal office building had the metal roof partially peeled up by the strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	$1,000	Report received of an estimated 70 mph wind gust near this location that downed a 1.25-inch diameter tree limb and blew off some old shingles from a roof. Event time is radar-estimated. Wind speed has been estimated based on storm damage.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	$1,000	A carport was blown down.
March 1998	Hail	Leoti	$1,000	Hail combined with wind broke windows.
April 2025	Hail	Leoti	-	Wichita County EM passed along a report of pea to dime sized hail in Leoti.
April 2025	Hail	Leoti	-	Law enforcement reported dime sized hail 1 mile south of Leoti.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Emergency manager reports a microburst with broken poles and downed tree limbs around 6 inches in diameter.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Mesonet station FW1490 Leoti measured 71 mph wind gust.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Wind gusts estimated around 60 mph was reported by a spotter to the east of Leoti.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Kansas mesonet site reported the 64 mph wind gust. A 60 mph wind gust was reported just before the 64 mph gust.
April 2024	Hail	Leoti	-	Report via social media with photos of estimated racquet ball sized spikey hail near Leoti.
April 2024	Hail	Leoti	-	Public submitted photo of nickel sized hail in Leoti.
April 2024	Hail	Leoti	-	Report via MPing.
April 2024	Hail	Leoti	-	Trained spotter reports 1 inch hail.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Reported via mesonet station FW1490.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Kansas State mesonet site reported the 75 wind gust at 10m.
August 2023	Hail	Leoti	-	Report received of hail ranging from 1 inch to 1.25 inches at location.
August 2023	Hail	Leoti	-	Accumulating hail up to pennies in size reported at location covering the highway.
August 2023	Hail	Leoti	-	Report received of hail up to pennies in size at location.
August 2023	Hail	Leoti	-	Hail up to pennies in size at location.
April 2022	Hail	Leoti	-	Multiple reports received of half-dollar to golf ball sized hail in the town of Leoti.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	The Kansas State Mesonet site reported a 62 mph wind gust at 10-meters above ground at location.
May 2022	Hail	Leoti	-	Report received from a trained spotter of dime to penny sized hail at location along with a 50 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	A mesonet station recorded a 61 mph gust at a height of 10 meters and a 45 mph gust at 2 meters.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Via Kansas Mesonet at Leoti. A 58 mph gust was measured at 10 meters high with a 47 mph gust measured at 2 meters high.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Kansas State mesonet station KWHK1 measured a 62 mph wind gust.
August 2021	Hail	Leoti	-	Report received via mPing of ping pong ball sized hail at location.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Leoti	-	Wichita County Law Enforcement reported at least 6 inches of water on roads within the city of Leoti due to heavy rain. A nearby rain gauge reported 0.51 inches of rain within a 15 minute period during the event. At times the rain was so heavy, visibility was reduced to half a mile or less.
July 2020	Hail	Leoti	-	Sheriff and citizens on social media reported various sized hail from quarter to half dollar falling in the town of Leoti.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Mesonet station recorded a 63 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Mesonet station recorded a 67 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Approximately 60 mph winds were estimated by local law enforcement in Leoti, KS.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Unknown number of trees blown down in town.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Leoti	-	A trained spotter reported roadways being covered with water at least six inches deep in some areas. Some county roads will be impassable due to the prolonged heavy rainfall. Storm report was sent through Spotter Network.
June 2013	Hail	Leoti	-	Spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail.
June 2013	Hail	Leoti	-	Quarter size hail has been falling off and on for 30 minutes.
June 2013	Hail	Leoti	-	Measured quarter sized hail with some larger stones estimated to be around half dollar size.
June 2010	Hail	Leoti	-	A six-inch tree branch was also broken.
May 2010	Hail	Leoti	-	Report was relayed via Vortex 2 probe vehicle.
July 2009	Hail	Leoti	-	Spotter also reported wind gusts estimated at 50 mph.
May 2008	Hail	Leoti	-	A law enforcement officer measured hail up to 3.5 inches in diameter.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Leoti	-	Brief tornado reported NW of Leoti with no known damage.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Strong winds broke 4-5 inch diameter tree limbs.
May 2007	Hail	Leoti	-	Several hail reports between penny and quarter size received during a 10 minute period from spotter, law enforcement and KAKE-TV broadcast media.
April 2007	Flash Flood	Leoti	-	Water running over highway 25 about 150 feet wide.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Leoti	-	Several tree limbs down...size unknown. Time estimated based on surrounding reports and radar imagery.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Leoti	-	3.00 inches of rain fell in the past three hours.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Leoti	-	4.50 inches of rain reported.
August 2006	Hail	Leoti	-	Hail fell for an estimated 45 minutes with maximum size of 2.0 inches.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Leoti	-	Large, slow moving thunderstorm produced flash flooding on many rural roads in the NW quarter of Wichita county...generally north of highway 96 and west of highway 25. Measured rainfall amounts of 3-6 inches were common from spotters and the general public the next morning. Gravel was washed off Road G near Ladder Creek about 13 NW Leoti. Many reports of more than 6 inches of water across roads.

Every storm recorded in Wichita 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
	William B. and Julia Washington House	0.1 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003427 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wichita County	All 2 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.