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One of 17 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Horton Civic Center
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- Address. 125 West 7th St. and 145 West 7th St., Horton, 66439
- When was it listed? March 2020
- Category. district
- Also known as. New Deal-Era Resources of Kansas MPS
- City. Horton city
- National Register reference number. 100005121 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
31 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Horton Civic Center between 2005 and 2020, burning about 658 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 15 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Brown County | 1738 |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18016 |
| 5 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 85 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500053 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 44 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500049 |
| 1 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500047 |
| 8 March 2015 | Smoking | 27 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500028 |
| 7 March 2015 | Smoking | 35 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500027 |
| 23 March 2015 | Smoking | 36 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500043 |
Storms near this property
33 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Horton | $100,000 | This brief tornado touched down at 5:40pm cst 2 miles NW of Horton in Brown County and was on the ground for 1 mile before lifting 2.5 miles NNW of Horton at 5:43pm cst. It had a path width of 50 yards. The tornado destroyed 2 outbuildings, and caused minor damage to trees and a home along its 1 mile long path, with the damage estimated at $100,000. It was spawned from a supercell thunderstorm. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | $50,000 | High winds knocked down trees in Horton and much of southern and western Brown County. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a barn near Horton. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | $5,000 | Old deteriorated barn collapsed by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | $5,000 | Strong winds blew down a tree onto a house and damaged some siding. |
| August 2004 | Lightning | Horton | $3,000 | Lightning struck a home and did significant damage. |
| November 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Horton | - | Multiple streets were flooded. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | Three RV's were blown onto their sides. Several tree branches down. Time and wind speed estimated from radar. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | Police removed a four inch diameter limb from street. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | A 10 inch diameter tree limb was broken. Time is estimated. |
| September 2007 | Hail | Horton | - | Measured quarter size hail report from Kickapoo Reservation Fire Department relayed to County Law Enforcement. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Horton | - | This F0 tornado moved 10 miles through Jackson County before crossing the border into Brown County 3 miles west of Horton. At times, it was 100 yards wide, and was spawned from a supercell thunderstorm. No damage was noted in Brown County. |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Horton | - | A large well documented funnel was visible to many and captured on film. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | Wind instrument measured the gust. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horton | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Horton | - | no account filed |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | US Post Office-Horton | 0.1 miles | 1989 |
| Fete Apartments | 0.2 miles | 2019 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005121 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 17 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.