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One of 12 National Register listings published here for Nemaha County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
John Waggoner House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Listed as. Waggoner, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 2441 204th Road, Sabetha, 66534
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. building
- Township. Berwick township
- National Register reference number. 100011682 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
13 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of John Waggoner House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 312 acres in total. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 6 March 2020 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 02015-4 |
| 5 March 2018 | Smoking | 8.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18012 |
| 3 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18011 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-11 |
| 19 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-10 |
| 11 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15009 |
Storms near this property
42 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sabetha, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Sabetha | $3,500,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Sabetha | $400,000 | Water reported flowing over rural roads north of Sabetha. |
| March 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Sabetha | $200,000 | This F1 tornado touched down 7.5 miles south of Sabetha, damaged one farmstead, then moved east-northeast to the Brown county border, roughly 6 miles south of Sabetha, where it damaged a second farmstead. Debris from the first homestead was scattered over a mile northeast. Some of the debris was lodged in treetops in a nearby woods. Other wood debris was driven several feet into the ground. The tornado had a path length of about 2 miles in Nemaha County with a path width of about 100 yards. The tornado then crossed the border into Brown County. The damage in Nemaha county was estimated at $200,000. This tornado formed in a bow echo that produced an otherwise wide swath of wind damage. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Sabetha | $50,000 | Several reports of minor street flooding but one road was reported completely under water. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | $50,000 | High winds tore the metal roof from a large horse barn south of town. Chunks of the flying metal hit a horse in the adjacent corral severing its foot just above the hoof. The horse had to be destroyed. The wind also knocked down power lines and trees. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | $40,000 | Several barns were blown down and doors on tin sheds were damaged. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Sabetha | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Lightning | Sabetha | $6,000 | Lightning started a fire that destroyed a barn. |
| July 2001 | Lightning | Sabetha | $4,000 | Lightning struck a house and started a fire that did some damage to the interior. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | On US highway 36 at the Nemaha and Brown Co line. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | Personal weather station. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Sabetha | - | Quarter sized hail covering the ground. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | Wind estimated at 70 mph. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | Report of a tree fallen onto a house. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Sabetha | - | Photo received via social media. Time was estimated from radar. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | A trained spotter reported 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | A 30 foot tree is split in half and laying across the road. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | An eight inch diameter tree limb was snapped off at a home in Sabetha. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Sabetha | - | Heavy rains causd flash flooding. Water was 1 foot deep over U.S. Highway 75 near Sabetha for a time. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Sabetha | - | Heavy rains produced flash flooding. Water covered U.S. 75 1 mile north of Sabetha as well as some street flooding within Sabetha for a time. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sabetha | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Sabetha | - | 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Old Albany Schoolhouse | 0.5 miles | 1972 |
 | US Post Office-Sabetha | 2.5 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011682 in Record Group 79. |
| Nemaha County | All 12 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.