Second Missionary Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Shawnee County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 416 and 424 NW Laurent Street, Shawnee, 66608
When was it listed? January 2025
Category. building
Also known as. African American Resources in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas MPS
City. Topeka city
National Register reference number. 100011286 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

507 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 507 fires within 5 miles of Second Missionary Baptist Church between 2006 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. None started naturally. 113 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	250
Arson/incendiarism	113
Debris and open burning	92
Smoking	21
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Fireworks	4
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
8 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shawnee County	15240
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	16182
29 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	15109
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	14941
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	17446
22 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	14677
20 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	14591
19 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	17228

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Second Missionary Baptist Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Kansas Sand and Concrete Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Shawnee 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
St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	2019
North Topeka Baptist Church	0.2 miles	2011
Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot	0.2 miles	2002
Fire Station No. 1	0.4 miles	2020
Curtis Junior High School	0.5 miles	2001
Mill Block Historic District	0.7 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011286 in Record Group 79.
Shawnee County	All 108 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.