First Methodist Church of Eudora

Built in 1921 (Collegiate Gothic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2024 · category: Building · built in 1921, Collegiate Gothic.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 703 Church Street, Eudora, 66025
When was it listed? September 2024
Category. building
Township. Eudora township
When was it built? 1921
Architectural style. Collegiate Gothic
National Register reference number. 100009704 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

88 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of First Methodist Church of Eudora between 2015 and 2020, burning about 573 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
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
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2160006
4 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	337
4 July 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	359
3 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	6590
14 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	111
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1250106
8 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
5 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	75

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eudora, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 31 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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
June 1996	Lightning	Eudora	$50,000	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	$8,000	Strong winds blew the roofs off of two houses. The roof of a nursing home was severely damaged.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph moved through the Eudora area producing only minor damage to roofs and trees.
May 2000	Lightning	Eudora	$1,000	Lightning struck a transformer and knocked out power to a Kwik Shop doing minor damage.
March 2026	Hail	Eudora	-	WFO EAX relayed report of nickel size hail in Eudora from an off-duty AOMC employee.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Estimated 60 mph gusts.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Social media report of a large, two foot diameter tree uprooted. Winds estimated between 70 and 80 mph.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Multiple trees blown down. Time estimated via radar.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Eudora AWOS recorded 78 mph gust.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Eudora	-	The northbound lane of E2200 Road partially covered with water and ditches are full on both sides of the road.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Delayed report of 60 mph wind gust.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Large tree 1 foot in diameter snapped.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Siding torn off a building. Time estimated based on radar.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Powerlines were reported down.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Estimated wind gust.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Picture of a 4-8 inch diameter tree limb down.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Eudora	-	Multiple roadways are flooded.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Powerlines were reported down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Estimated wind gust.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Delayed report received via twitter. Power lines appeared to be bent over and tree branches were snapped. The size of the branches is unknown.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Delayed report of a 6 inch diameter limb snapped.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Powerlines reported down in Eudora.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Tree damage including large limbs in Eudora.
July 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Eudora	-	Damage assessment survey found a path of sporadic tree damage extending approximately 6 miles along a line from Eudora to around 3 miles southwest of De Soto in Johnson County. This tornado did cross from Douglas County Kansas which is NWS Topeka's area into Johnson County Kansas which is NWS Kansas City's service area. EF1 tree damage was noted along the path. Width of damage estimated 250 yards maximum while majority of tornado damage path was more narrow on order of 50 to 100 yards.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Wind gust measured on the southwest side of Eudora. No damage reported.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Law enforcement reported a 60 mph wind gust in Eudora.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	A law enforcement officer reported trees down along E 2400 Road.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Wind blew 2 to 3 inch tree limbs down.
September 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Eudora	-	The tornado touched down in a field and moved northeast damaging two residences and one farm. The tornado was on the ground for 1 minute and 26 seconds. The tornado produced EF-1 damage at both residences, at the first residence a garage and small barn were both destroyed. A cedar tree was snapped off at its base and a power pole was snapped off mid-way. At the second residence an outbuilding was destroyed. A large barn sustained significant roofing damage. A barn with a cinderblock wall was destroyed. There was damage to the outside of the residence, siding and shingle damage primairly. The tornado lifted over a field a short distance from the second residence.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	One and half foot diamter tree snapped. Power lines also reported to be down.
October 2007	Flash Flood	Eudora	-	Law enforcement relayed a report that water was flowing over N. 1500 Road near E. 2000 Rd. A spotter in the town of Eudora reported 4.00 of rain so far on the 17th.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	Strong winds took trees and power lines down in Eudora.
May 2012	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Eudora	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Eudora	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Cohn/Gardner-Hill & Company Store	0.1 miles	2021
Charles Pilla House	0.1 miles	1974
Holy Family Catholic Church	0.2 miles	2020
Beni Israel Cemetery	1.5 miles	2013
Oak Hill Cemetery	6.3 miles	2017
Robert H. Miller House	6.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009704 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.