Fort Dodge - Junior Officers' Quarters

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Ford 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. 266 Custer Street, Fort Dodge, 67801
When was it listed? August 2024
Category. building
Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
Township. Grandview township
National Register reference number. 100010625 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

97 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Fort Dodge - Junior Officers' Quarters between 2015 and 2020, burning about 439 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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	45
Debris and open burning	22
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	2
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
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ford County	1170287
6 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ford County	1170285
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1150150
24 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1150161
4 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ford County	1170257
3 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ford County	1170256
28 August 2015	Natural	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1150142
28 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1150146

Every fire recorded in Ford 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
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Depot	4.5 miles	2000
Mueller-Schmidt House	4.6 miles	1972
Lora Locke Hotel	4.7 miles	1985
Dodge City Downtown Historic District	4.7 miles	2009
Sacred Heart Cathedral	4.7 miles	1983
Dodge City Public Library	4.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010625 in Record Group 79.
Ford County	All 13 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.