Pratt-Mertz Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Wabaunsee County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 34107 KS 18, Manhattan, 66502
When was it listed? February 2020
Category. building
Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
Township. Wabaunsee township
National Register reference number. 100004928 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

50 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Pratt-Mertz Barn between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,136 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	18505
22 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pottawatomie County	84
4 July 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1176021
3 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1176019
2 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1176009
2 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1176012
14 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Riley County	not named
29 June 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1176000

Every fire recorded in Wabaunsee 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 Pratt-Mertz Barn: 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
	Mc Carter Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wabaunsee 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
Wabaunsee District #1 Grammar School	2.4 miles	2005
Beecher Bible and Rifle Church	2.6 miles	1971
Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Historic District	4.8 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004928 in Record Group 79.
Wabaunsee County	All 20 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.