BlockFrom the record
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Russell County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
House at 202 West 3rd Street
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 202 West 3rd St., Luray, 67649
- When was it listed? March 2023
- Category. building
- Also known as. Post Rock Limestone Properties in Kansas, 1870 - 1948 MPS
- Township. Luray township
- National Register reference number. 100008786 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of House at 202 West 3rd Street in 2018, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 June 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1814 |
Storms near this property
49 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luray, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 27 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $80,000 | Estimated 70 to 80 mph winds produced widespread damage in and around the Luray area. A church limestone steeple was badly damaged, a fertilizer conveyer at the COOP was blown over, an awning was blown off a business, several trees and tree limbs of various sizes were downed, and some power lines were downed, one of which fell on a house. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $35,000 | Midway Co-op lost five 9,500 bushel grain bins due to microburst winds. The grain bins were blown into adjacent power lines as well as one power pole possessing a transformer, severing power to Luray for approximately 4 hours. Two light towers at Luray-Lucas High School were toppled as was one utility pole adjacent to Luray-Lucas Elementary. The microburst winds caused damage to many roofs and broke windows. Many vehicles sustained damage from blowing sand, gravel, and debris. (Report courtesy of Russell County News and Lucas-Sylvan News.) |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $15,000 | Shed destroyed. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $10,000 | Power lines blown down. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $5,000 | A highway sign was blown down by an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | $200 | Damaging winds also snapped 6 inch diameter tree limbs that were thrown almost 40 feet (13 meters) from the parent tree. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Luray | - | Rain fall total 24 hours of 1.96 inches. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Luray | - | An mPING report of ping pong ball sized hail. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Luray | - | Windows were broken out at the bank from the hail. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Luray | - | The report was relayed by KAKE Television. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | Luray | - | This is a 24 hour rainfall total of 4.95 inches. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | A home weather station reported the gust. |
| September 2018 | Hail | Luray | - | Winds of 50 to 60 mph were also reported. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Wind speeds ranged from 50 to 60 mph. Hail as large as ping pong balls was also reported. |
| September 2018 | Hail | Luray | - | Winds of 60 mph also occurred. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Ping pong ball size hail also occurred. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | The KSNW television weather lab reported the wind gust. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | The KSNW television weather lab recorded a wind gust to 60 mph. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Luray | - | Quarter to half dollar sized hail fell for almost 15 minutes. The quarter sized hail covered the ground. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Measured wind gust at Luray High School by KSN Weatherlab. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Luray | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Luray | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | KSN Weatherlab. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Measured by a KSNW weatherlab site. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Large trees uprooted. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Luray Elementary Weatherlab. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Luray/Lucus weather lab. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | Major tree damage. One tree completely uprooted along with branches 4-5 inches in diameter and one close to 1 foot in diameter blown down. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Luray | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Luray | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Luray | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pospishil Building | 0.2 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008786 in Record Group 79. |
| Russell County | All 17 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.