BlockFrom the record
One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2021 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Kansas Homestead of Thomas McQuill(i)an
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- Address. 1320 North 150 Rd., Baldwin City, 66006
- When was it listed? June 2021
- Category. district
- Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
- Township. Willow Springs township
- National Register reference number. 100006683 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
48 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Kansas Homestead of Thomas McQuill(i)an between 2015 and 2020, burning about 537 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 41 |
| 5 May 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Franklin County | 32 |
| 27 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 229 |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15 |
| 28 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 29 |
| 12 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Franklin County | 2017111 |
| 10 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 134 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
Storms near this property
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Baldwin City | $1,000,000 | A small tornado formed along the north edge of a strong downburst and moved mainly across open fields. The tornado skipped across the county destroying several farm buildings, a motorhome and farm equipment. However, with widespread straightline wind damage in the area, it was difficult to distinguish between the cause(s) of the damage. The most significant damage occurred along and about one to two miles west of highway 33. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baldwin City | $20,000 | High winds tore down power poles and lines knocking out electricity for several hours. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Santa Fe Depot | 3.1 miles | 1983 |
| First Methodist Episcopal Church | 3.8 miles | 2025 | |
 | Case Library | 3.8 miles | 1986 |
 | Parmenter Memorial Hall | 3.9 miles | 1977 |
 | Baldwin City School and Auditorium-Gymnasium | 3.9 miles | 2015 |
 | Old Castle Hall, Baker University | 4.0 miles | 1971 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006683 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.
- 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.