William Henry House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Henry, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 344 N. 1925 Rd., Lecompton, 66050
When was it listed? September 2019
Category. building
Township. Lecompton township
National Register reference number. 100004448 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

99 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of William Henry House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,402 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	50
Debris and open burning	37
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
15 September 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1017
14 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	132
5 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	184
3 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	18058
13 August 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	900
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2018125
25 July 2018	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kansas Forest Service	18054
2 July 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Shawnee County	663

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of William Henry House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hamm Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lecompton, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	$20,000	Strong winds moved across northern Douglas county doing considerable damage. A stock trailer was overturned near Lecompton, and considerable tree limb and power line damage occurred in Lawrence. Crops suffered considerable damage as well.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	LeCompton	$5,000	High winds and 0.75 inch hail were reported.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	NWS employee estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	One foot diameter tree limbs down and quarter sized hail.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph. No damage reported.
June 2013	Hail	Lecompton	-	Photo from social media...time estimated from radar.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	Metal building that houses the Lecompton Township Fire Department had it's north and south doors blown in.
May 2006	Hail	Lecompton	-	Reported in the town of Stull.
April 2009	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lecompton	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Lecompton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

6 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
Constitution Hall	3.1 miles	1971
Lane University	3.2 miles	1971
Winter School No. 70	4.2 miles	2020
Oregon-California Trail Segments (Additional Documentation)	5.2 miles	2016
Oregon-California Trail Segments (Boundary Increase)	5.2 miles	2022
Clinton School District 25	7.2 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004448 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.