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Photograph of Hoff School District No. 42
Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hoff School District No. 42

Built in 1899 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Hoff School District No. 42, near Kirwin, Kansas in Phillips County, Kansas, is a one-room schoolhouse built in 1899. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.”

Wikipedia article Hoff School District No. 42, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Phillips County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1899, vernacular architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Near Intersection of E Union Rd and E 1300 Rd, Kirwin, 66951
  • When was it listed? January 2011
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
  • Township. Kirwin township
  • When was it built? 1899
  • Architectural style. vernacular architecture
  • National Register reference number. 10001140 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hoff School District No. 42 between 2002 and 2017, burning about 381 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015015
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015017
2 June 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKirwin National Wildlife RefugeHAIRPIN
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKirwin National Wildlife RefugeEAST 4 WAY
19 April 2004Debris and open burning168 acresKirwin National Wildlife RefugeUNIT 9
9 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2016004
20 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKirwin National Wildlife RefugeID HUNTER
18 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSmith County2017011

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirwin, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 19 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2017HailKirwin$150,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported. A portion of Highway 9 east of Glade was covered with 1-2 inches of hail.
July 2004HailKirwin$100,000no account filed
May 2012HailKirwin$75,000Hail ranging from golf ball to baseball size was reported.
June 2010Flash FloodKirwin$75,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindKirwin$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailKirwin$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailKirwin$2,000Hail reported at spillway on Kirwin Lake.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKirwin-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindKirwin-This wind gust was measured by the RAWS equipment located west of Kirwin.
August 1993HailKirwin-Hail damaged 1,000 acres of sorghum with a loss of potential yield of $25,000.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKirwin-no account filed
May 2018HailKirwin-no account filed
June 2016HailKirwin-no account filed
June 2014HailKirwin-no account filed
May 2012HailKirwin-no account filed
May 2011HailKirwin-no account filed
May 2011HailKirwin-no account filed
June 2010HailKirwin-no account filed
June 2010HailKirwin-no account filed
July 1999HailKirwin-no account filed
August 1997HailKirwin-no account filed
September 1995HailKirwin-no account filed
May 1994HailKirwin-no account filed
June 1994HailKirwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kirwin City Hall3.5 miles2006
Agra Consolidated School3.8 miles2005
Agra Lake and Park4.0 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10001140 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Phillips CountyAll 9 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.