Hotel Josephine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2024 · 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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 501 Ohio Avenue, Holton, 66436
When was it listed? May 2024
Category. building
Township. Franklin township
National Register reference number. 100010299 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

49 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Josephine between 2007 and 2018, burning about 124 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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
17 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Horton Agency	HERMESCH
12 August 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	53
7 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	34
7 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Jackson County	40
5 April 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	35
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	41
23 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Jackson County	41
20 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	39

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

60 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holton, the town this property stands in, in 74 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 41 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 3 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
March 2006	Lightning	Holton	$75,000	Lightning struck a watershed district building and showered down fist sized pieces of concrete to the street below. One piece of concrete hit and damaged a car.
April 2005	Hail	Holton	$50,000	Hail damaged windshields and roofs of some outbuildings.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Holton	$50,000	Debris field along road indicated water of 10 to 15 inches deep had been flowing over the road. Also, a nearby roadway was washed out. The next day after the water had receded, a man sustained serious but indirect injuries when he drove over a culvert on the road. The culvert collapsed under the weight of the car he was driving.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	$50,000	High winds damaged a metal shed south of Holton.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	$5,000	Strong winds blew down tree limbs that damaged power lines.
September 1998	Lightning	Holton	$5,000	Lightning struck a transformer doing damage to it and causing about an hour long power outage in part of Holton.
July 2011	Hail	Holton	$1,000	A west-facing sliding glass patio door was broken.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	$1,000	Strong winds blew over a construction trailer.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	Gust to 60 mph measured on personal weather station southwest of Holton.
May 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Holton	-	A tornado touched down just north of Holton damaging a well constructed barn. Large portions of the roof were blown off and some of the walls were blown out from winds estimated to be up to 90 mph. The tornado skipped northeast across the county side and produced some tree damage as it moved towards Straight Creek.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	Measured on a personal weather station.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	Measured on a personal weather station.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	Report of 8 to 10 inch tree limb down.
October 2021	Hail	Holton	-	Report of hail slightly less than 1 inch in diameter.
April 2020	Hail	Holton	-	Golf ball sized hail reported.
April 2020	Hail	Holton	-	Golf ball sized hail reported.
April 2020	Flash Flood	Holton	-	Widespread flash flooding, with multiple streets under water. Up to 8 inches deep in spots. Photos via social media.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	Tree blown down, size was unknown.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	A tree was reported down, the size was unknown.
June 2015	Flood	Holton	-	Several roads remain closed due to flooding. Elk creek from Circleville to the Atchison county line is out of its banks. There are a couple of bridges that were damaged, one of which may fail near Whiting.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Holton	-	Reports of moving water over the roadway near Q4 rd and 254th st.
May 2013	Flood	Holton	-	Truck reported water over the roadway on US75 at mile marker 201.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	Tree blown down on car in Holton on highway 16.
July 2010	Flood	Holton	-	Water was reported over Old Highway 75, north of Holton.
August 2006	Lightning	Holton	-	Lightning struck and entered the attic of a home in the town of Holton, starting a fire, which was quickly put out by local firefighters.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	4 to 5 inch diameter live tree limbs reported down. Pieces of bark were also strippped from some trees.
April 2004	Flash Flood	Holton	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding. Water was reported over highway 75 south of Holton for a time.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Holton	-	Heavy rains of 6 to 11 inches caused flooding in many areas. Many roads were closed and extensive crop damage occurred. Many small creeks and streams went out of their banks for a time. The heavy rains occurred over a 24 hour period beginning early on the 19th.
September 2001	Flash Flood	Holton	-	Runoff from heavy rains flooded several roads north of Holton.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	Winds around 60 mph and marble-size hail caused no significant damage.
June 2024	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
March 2015	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Holton	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Holton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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

3 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
State Bank of Holton	0.1 miles	1977
McFadden House	0.2 miles	2001
Holton Bath House	0.4 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010299 in Record Group 79.
Jackson County	All 5 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.