Paxico Rural High School

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: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 112 Elm St., Paxico, 66526
When was it listed? July 2022
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
Township. Newbury township
National Register reference number. 100007925 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

28 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Paxico Rural High School between 2009 and 2020, burning about 1,388 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	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
18 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wabaunsee County	52
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	60
4 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	59
3 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	58
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	55
28 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wabaunsee County	43
21 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	467
17 June 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	466

Every fire recorded in Wabaunsee County

Storms near this property

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paxico, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 19 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	2 hurt, $500,000	Winds estimated to at least 70 mph caused widespread damage across the county. A couple near Paxico was briefly trapped in their mobile home when it was detached from its cables and flipped over. The uninsured mobile home was destroyed. The couple was treated for minor injuries at a hospital. Other damage to trees, power lines and roofs was common. Many crops were severely damaged in the storm.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Paxico	$100,000	Over 6 inches of fast flowing water over highway 18 and over several county roads.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a junior high school.
June 1999	Lightning	Paxico	$3,000	Two bolts of lightning struck a 2 story farm house igniting a fire that heavily damaged the structure.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	$2,000	no account filed
March 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Paxico	-	A visual confirmation of a tornado was reported \|approximately 1 mile west of Paxico slightly north of Interstate 70. \|This tornado proceeded to remove a barn roof on the northeast side of \|Paxico. Time estimated based on radar data.
October 2017	Hail	Paxico	-	The report was delayed via social media.
April 2016	Flood	Paxico	-	Evacuations of Mill Creek campground are underway due to flooding along Mill Creek.
October 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	A couple two to three inch diameter tree branches reported to have been blown down by the 60 mph winds.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	Relayed report from the public that tin sections of an outbuilding were carried a couple miles to the east by strong severe thunderstorm winds. Barbed wire fences were also knocked down.
June 2006	Hail	Paxico	-	Reported as large marble size hail.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Paxico	-	Heavy rains produced flash flooding in northeast Wabaunsee county. Several roads were under water for a time. Water was also reported flowing out of drainage ditches and over a few roads.
September 2010	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Paxico	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Paxico	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

6 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
Paxico Historic District	0.4 miles	1998
Snokomo School	6.4 miles	1995
Brandt Hotel	7.7 miles	2008
Alma Downtown Historic District	7.7 miles	2009
Stuewe House	7.8 miles	2007
Wabaunsee County Courthouse	7.8 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007925 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.
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.