Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Wabaunsee County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 29377 Mitchell Prairie Ln., Wamego, 66547
When was it listed? July 2022
Category. district
Township. Wabaunsee township
National Register reference number. 100007422 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

18 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Historic District between 2014 and 2018, burning about 417 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
2 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1176012
6 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pottawatomie County	28
10 April 2015	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	47
8 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	8
31 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	330 acres	Wabaunsee County	HEREFORD ROAD
23 March 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	17
21 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1175890
21 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Kansas Forest Service	42

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 Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Wamego Sand Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Beecher Bible and Rifle Church	2.4 miles	1971
Wabaunsee District #1 Grammar School	2.6 miles	2005
Pratt-Mertz Barn	4.8 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007422 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.