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One of 10 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sunnyside School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1121 Republic Rd, Jefferson, 66044
- When was it listed? January 2011
- Category. building
- Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
- Township. Sarcoxie township
- National Register reference number. 10001139 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
70 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside School between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,847 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 129 |
| 29 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18051 |
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201837 |
| 6 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 141 |
| 5 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201835 |
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 201834 |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Morris Harris Farmstead | 1.6 miles | 2023 |
 | Buck Creek School | 2.3 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10001139 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 10 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.