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Keraus Hardware Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Trego County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 121 North Main St., WaKeeney, 67672
  • When was it listed? October 2023
  • Category. building
  • Township. WaKeeney township
  • National Register reference number. 100009418 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Keraus Hardware Store between 2015 and 2020, burning about 24 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service11
4 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
19 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2
3 March 2020Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
26 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Trego County

Storms near this property

60 of 158 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names WaKeeney, the town this property stands in, in 158 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 105 hail, 42 thunderstorm wind, 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWakeeney$3,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWakeeney$1,000A few power poles blown down.
September 2025HailWakeeney-Trego county emergency manager reported quarter sized hail 3 W of Wakeeney.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Wind report of 60 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Strong winds.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Mesonet site 1 SSW Wakeeney.
September 2022HailWakeeney-The report was from mPing.
September 2022HailWakeeney-The report was from mPing.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH.
March 2021Heavy RainWakeeney-Rainfall of 4.50 inches was observed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-A roof was blown off a building.
May 2018Heavy RainWakeeney-Rainfall of 4.10 was measured in two hours and at the time of the observation it was still raining.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Severe semi trucks were overturned by the high wind.
May 2018FloodWakeeney-Water and debris came across the road.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Wind gusts were estimated to be 65 to 70 MPH. Large tree branches were blown down.
August 2017HailWakeeney-Winds were at least 70 MPH while the hail fell. Nearly every window was broken in structures and vehicles.
August 2017HailWakeeney-Winds were at least 70 MPH.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-A semi tractor trailer was blown over on the interstate.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Siding was blown off a DQ but was also accompanied by very large hail shattering much of the siding.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Many homes had siding damage from hail and high wind. A nearby crop field was completely destroyed.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Windows were broken and trees were uprooted by the high wind.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Power lines were blown down by the high wind.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Two inch diameter tree branches were broken by the high wind.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Pea sized hail was also reported with the high winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Several power poles were blown down. Elephants with a circus were spooked by the thunderstorm and got loose and were running rampant in Wakeeney.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Wakeeney-A tornado developed southwest of the Wakeeney airport and subsequently moved across the south side of Wakeeney before curving north along 13th Avenue and dissipating about 0.25 miles north of the city limit and 0.25 miles west of U.S. 283 (13th Street). The first damage was destruction of a hangar at the airport. The hangar was open to the south, and the wind entered the structure, lifted it, and deposited it in pieces northeast of its original location. The tornado moved through the KOA Campground south of I70, rolling a fifth wheel trailer, destroying a small cabin that was held down only by gravity, blowing limbs up to six inches in diameter from trees, and removing shingles from the roof of the managers office. Portions of the flat roof covering on the high school were lifted and peeled off. Small storage buildings were destroyed and trees were uprooted along 13th Street. At the north end of Wakeeney, a large Quonset building that opened to the south was lifted and destroyed, and the roof was removed from a brick barn. Wind speeds were estimated to be 90-100 mph.
August 2007HailWakeeney-Also estimated 60 mph wind at this location.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Two inch diameter tree limb was blown down. Pea size hail and 0.40 inches of rain also occurred.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Also had 1 inch diameter hail along with the wind.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Wakeeney-Contact with the ground was observed for about 2 minutes. Nothing was impacted to cause any damage.
July 2006HailWakeeney-Also reported winds to 55 mph.
April 2005Tornado (F1)Wakeeney-This tornado appeard to be very strong but only did F1 damage to a barn that did not take a direct hit.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Wakeeney-This was a brief spinup.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Wakeeney-This tornado did not high anything.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Trees and power lines were blown down
September 2001HailWakeeney-The hail fell for 10 minutes.
June 2000Flash FloodWakeeney-Water over highway 283 along Big Creek.
October 2000Tornado (F0)Wakeeney-Brief tornado moved straight north.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Field cultivator blown over. Corn stripped.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-Four to six inch tree limbs blown down.
June 1997HailWakeeney-Location is WaKeeney.
September 1995HailWakeeney-Water was standing everywhere.
September 1995HailWakeeney-Water was standing everywhere.
May 1995HailWakeeney-Nearly $2 million damage to crops occurred across the county.
August 1993HailWakeeney-One-inch hail was reported at the Cedar Bluff Reservoir.
July 2025HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2024HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2024HailWakeeney-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWakeeney-no account filed
May 2023HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2023HailWakeeney-no account filed
June 2023HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2022HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2021HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2021HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2021HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2021HailWakeeney-no account filed
May 2021HailWakeeney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trego 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stradal House0.7 miles2001
Trego County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building0.8 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100009418 in Record Group 79.
Trego CountyAll 7 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.