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One of 27 National Register listings published here for Morris County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Herington Army Airfield Chapel
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 106 Main Street, Latimer, 67449
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Township. Township 6
- National Register reference number. 100009706 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
20 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Herington Army Airfield Chapel between 2002 and 2020, burning about 463 acres in total. 1 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Dickinson County | not named |
| 1 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 27 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 20 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Dickinson County | not named |
| 6 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018028 |
| 15 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018026 |
| 11 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018027 |
Storms near this property
18 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Latimer, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $10,000 | One side of a prefab house was peeled away and a large portion of the roof lost shingles. Some trees were uprooted and some smaller outbuildings were blown over. An old granery building was flattened. A windmill dating from the 1930's was also destroyed. Large round hay bales were blown from a nearby field to near the house. A nearby house suffered tree and property damage. Large pine trees, some over 100 years old, were toppled. A utility pole fell on a propane tank causing a gas leak. A satellite dish was ripped from the roof and windows were blown out of the home. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | $5,000 | The measured wind gust of 80 mph came out of White City. The main structure of the storm moved through Morris county, producing 80 to 90 mph winds. Some structures in White City suffered major damage as a result of the wind storm. Most of these structures were pre-fabricated homes, garages, and a mobile home, which was not tied down. Windows were also broken out of permanent structures from wind and hail being thrown against the sides of the the structures. The major damage swath was about 20 miles wide with the storm track from this event being the mid line of the storm's damage path. In Council Grove, reports were received of 36 to 48 inch trees being snapped by the strong winds. Quarter sized hail was also reported at this location. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | - | Several outbuildings destroyed. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | - | Estimated 70 mph winds. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Latimer | - | A NWS storm survey revealed the tornado tracked into Morris county and damaged several farms and homes along its path to Parkerville. |
| May 2022 | Flash Flood | Latimer | - | Deep water flowing across highway 4, 1 mile east of Latimer. The road was impassible. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Latimer | - | Multiple roads closed due to high water, including 2400 Rd to 2800 Rd. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Latimer | - | Storm chasers and trained spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in an open field. A debris swirl was noted and lasted less than one minute. No damage was done or had been reported. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Latimer | - | Law enforcement reported a foot of water flowing over P Avenue near Highway 149, south of White City. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latimer | - | Several power poles were downed and several transformers were damaged. Trees were downed throughout the town and one house lost a large picture window. A grain elevator lost a large storage bin which landed on adjacent railroad tracks. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Latimer | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Latimer | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Latimer | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Latimer | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Latimer | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Latimer | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Latimer | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Latimer | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Jenkins Building | 7.1 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009706 in Record Group 79. |
| Morris County | All 27 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.