Frank and Agnes Schmotz Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Wyandotte County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Schmotz, Frank and Agnes, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 643 South 138th Street, Bonner Springs, 66012
When was it listed? June 2024
Category. district
Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
City. Bonner Springs city
National Register reference number. 100010423 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

109 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Frank and Agnes Schmotz Farmstead between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,478 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	61
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	11
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
28 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2710174
24 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	23901
16 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	23147
7 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wyandotte County	732
3 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	639
14 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Leavenworth County	521
14 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	209
11 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	545

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Frank and Agnes Schmotz Farmstead: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bonner Springs-Plant #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Builders #2 Dredge & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bonner Springs Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Tobin Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Underground Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wyandotte County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonner Springs, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonner Springs	$40,000	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	Bonner Springs	-	no account filed
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Bonner Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wyandotte 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
Bonner Springs High School	2.1 miles	2002
Roy Williamson House	4.3 miles	2007
Grinter Place	7.4 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010423 in Record Group 79.
Wyandotte County	All 47 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.