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One of 34 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
George L. Morrow Barn
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.
- Listed as. Morrow, George L., Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 19810 South Hedge Lane, Spring Hill, 66083
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
- Township. Spring Hill township
- National Register reference number. 100009711 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
134 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of George L. Morrow Barn between 2003 and 2020, burning about 343 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 58 |
| Debris and open burning | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 8 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2200109 |
| 22 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Johnson County | 2340214 |
| 22 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2340149 |
| 22 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Johnson County | not named |
| 16 August 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 10 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2220104 |
Storms near this property
33 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | 4 hurt | Severe thunderstorms moved across Johnson County. A 70 mph wind gust was observed at the intersection of U.S. Route 169 and 199th Street, and a 65 mph wind gust occurred near Stanley. Gusts up to 60 mph were recorded at the New Century Airport in Olathe, at the intersection of Interstate 435 and Johnson Drive. Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and limbs in Gardner and Shawnee. In Overland Park, a tree fell on a house and car, and a 60-foot tree was knocked down at 92nd and Switzer. Several streets were completely blocked by downed trees and limbs. A two-foot diameter tree also fell onto a house in Merriam, and trees, limbs, and power lines were downed in Spring Hill. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $50,000 | Trees and limbs were blown down from Olathe to the northern portion of Spring Hill. |
| September 1993 | Hail | Spring Hill | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $45,000 | Fire truck blown off road. Three semi trailers overturned. One of which crushed an automobile. Radio tower snapped and power lines were down. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and wind damage in and around Spring Hill. There were reports of a tornado in this area, but no ground-truth evidence could be found. There may have been a funnel aloft, as there were additional reports to the east into Cass county, Missouri. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $500 | A power line was reported down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | Downed wires near Renner Road east of Spring Hill. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | Fire and rescue reported 60 mph wind. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | A power pole was snapped from 60 to 70 mph wind gusts at the intersection of Race and Hale Street in Spring Hill, Kansas. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | A tree was down and a power outage occurred near Spring Hill. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | A large piece of plywood was embedded into the side of a house. Wind speed was derived from nearby reports of 75 mph winds and significant damage in other nearby areas. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Spring Hill | - | Woodland Road closed due to high water from very heavy rains. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Spring Hill | - | 199th Street at Ridgeview is closed due to high water. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and limbs 12 to 18 inches in diameter at the USD 230 Board of Education offices. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | Public reports were received of an 18-inch diameter evergreen tree downed, and other tree damage. Also, lawn furniture was thrown up into trees by thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Thomas Turner Barn | 2.9 miles | 1999 |
| Ensor Farm | 3.0 miles | 2004 | |
| Lone Elm Campground Swale | 4.0 miles | 2014 | |
| Downtown Gardner Historic District | 4.8 miles | 2023 | |
 | Herman B. Foster House | 5.2 miles | 2007 |
 | WPA Beach House at Gardner Lake | 6.8 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009711 in Record Group 79. |
| Johnson County | All 34 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.