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One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Winter School No. 70
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- Address. 744 North 1800 Rd., Lecompton, 66050
- When was it listed? December 2020
- Category. building
- Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
- Township. Lecompton township
- National Register reference number. 100005947 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
122 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Winter School No. 70 between 2015 and 2018, burning about 793 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 | 56 |
| Debris and open burning | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Douglas County | 8594 |
| 15 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150083 |
| 5 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 184 |
| 3 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 181 |
| 29 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Douglas County | 8263 |
| 2 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 7756 |
| 11 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18059 |
| 25 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18054 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Winter School No. 70: 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 |
Storms near this property
32 since 1994Regional 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 |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon-California Trail Segments (Additional Documentation) | 1.6 miles | 2016 | |
| Oregon-California Trail Segments (Boundary Increase) | 1.6 miles | 2022 | |
 | Lane University | 3.4 miles | 1971 |
 | Constitution Hall | 3.5 miles | 1971 |
| William Henry House | 4.2 miles | 2019 | |
 | Clinton School District 25 | 5.7 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005947 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.