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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hugh M. and Rachel A. Brook House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Listed as. Brook, Hugh M. and Rachel A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 604 East Kansas Avenue, Blue Mound, 66010
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. building
- Township. Blue Mound township
- National Register reference number. 100011615 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
19 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Hugh M. and Rachel A. Brook House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 292 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 571 |
| 20 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Linn County | 210 |
| 16 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 188 |
| 13 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 522 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 139 |
| 14 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Linn County | 140 |
Storms near this property
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Mound, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF4) | Blue Mound | $400,000 | EF4 tornado crossed from Anderson county into Linn county in Kansas at 7:30 PM CST, 4 miles northwest of Blue Mound. The tornado moved east-northeast over mainly rural areas of the county. A home, several farm buildings, and garage were completely destroyed. Other buildings received minor to moderate damage. There were no injuries or deaths with this tornado. The tornado also downed trees and power lines. The tornado lifted 6 miles north-northeast of Pleasanton at 8:10 PM CST. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F2) | Blue Mound | $15,000 | Tornado crossed from Anderson county into Linn county 3 miles west northwest of Blue Mound and produced tree damage in rural county before dissipating. However...a cemetery was hit with many tombstones knocked over and damage to mausoleums. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mound | $3,000 | Structural damage was reported to several metal buildings. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EF1) | Blue Mound | - | Around 8 PM on 13 April 2026, an EF-1 tornado associated with|a supercell developed in far southwest Linn County, KS, around|2 miles southeast of the town of Blue Mound near the intersection|of 300th Road and Farris Rd. The tornado tracked to the east|northeast, causing significant tree damage to a home off Ingrahm|Road. From there, the tornado crossed Kansas Highway 31/52 and|caused significant damage to trees at Curry Cemetery and then|caused damage to trees and outbuildings along 600th Road. The tornado|continued into the Sugar Valley and Hidden Valley Lakes community,|flipping over campers, damaging trees and docks, and throwing|a manufactured home off its cinder block supports, completely|destroying it, near Park Lane and Paine Road, where 2 people|sustained injuries. Continuing further to the east northeast,|the tornado caused significant tree and outbuilding damage to|a residence along Scott Road north of 750th Road, and then crossed|US Highway 69 about 2 miles south of Pleasanton and continued|all the way to the Missouri State Line just north of 1100th Road,|primarily damaging trees. The tornado continued into Bates County,|Missouri, damaging trees in the community of Worland, ending|shortly east northeast of Worland around 8:46 PM CDT. In total,|the tornado traveled around 24 miles over the course of 43 minutes,|with a peak wind of 105 mph. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mound | - | An estimated 70 mph wind gusts was reported by fire rescue. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mound | - | Six inch tree limbs were broken and shingles were blown off of roof. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mound | - | A large tree was blown down on Main St in Blue Mound. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mound | - | A 4 tree limb was snapped off in Blue Mound. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mound | - | A parked semi-trailer was blown over near the intersection of 5th and Pine St. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Blue Mound | - | Water was reported covering Highway 31 at Ingram Road. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Blue Mound | - | Flash flooding observed at the intersection of County Road 1077 and 400th Street. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | Blue Mound | - | A half foot of water was reported over Highway 31, just west of Ingram Road. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mound | - | Four to five inch tree limbs were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Mound | - | The Linn County Sheriff's Office reported tree limbs, 6 inches in diameter. The tree limbs fell in Blue Mound and a mile north of Mound City. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Blue Mound | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011615 in Record Group 79. |
| Linn County | All 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.