Louis Werner Barn

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

“The Lewis Werner Barn, in Kingman County, Kansas near Murdock, Kansas but with mailing address in Pretty Prairie, Kansas in Reno County, Kansas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.”
Wikipedia article Louis Werner Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Kingman County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1912.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Werner, Louis, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4550 NE 80th Ave., Pretty Prairie, 67570
When was it listed? December 2020
Category. building
Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
Township. Galesburg township
When was it built? 1912
National Register reference number. 100005952 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

25 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Louis Werner Barn between 2008 and 2020, burning about 6,632 acres in total. 2 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	10
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
24 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	74
17 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Reno County	40
13 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	70
1 July 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	40 acres	Kingman County	1461
26 June 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	88
22 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	83
20 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	80
18 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Kingman 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005952 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kingman County	All 8 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.