BlockFrom the record
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Dickinson County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Pray Farmstead(s)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 178 Hawk Road, Hope, 67451
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. district
- Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
- Township. Banner township
- National Register reference number. 100011740 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
15 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Pray Farmstead(s) between 2014 and 2020, burning about 4,853 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Dickinson County | 22 |
| 8 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018014 |
| 4 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,200 acres | Marion County | TAMPA |
| 10 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 1 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 19 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
| 4 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
| 29 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
36 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hope, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 21 hail, 7 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 2005 | Flash Flood | Hope | 1 killed, $300,000 | Six inches of fast flowing water over roads 6 miles south of Hope. One fatality occurred when a 37 year old man was swept away by rapidly flowing water after he exited his truck when the right front tire dropped off a low water bridge. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Hope | $100,000 | Six inches of fast flowing water across some streets in Hope. |
| June 2005 | Heavy Rain | Hope | $100,000 | Reports of ponded water 6 to 7 inches deep over area roads including highway K-4. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | $25,000 | The attached garage to a house near Hope, Kansas was completely destroyed. A separate work shop near the house also sustained major damage. An enclosed trailer was tossed in the air and deposited on its side 30 feet away. Many objects throughout the yard were also thrown about 100 yards as a result of 90 to 100 mph winds. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Hope | $6,000 | Numerous reports of fast flowing water over highway 4 with several cars in ditches. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hope | $3,000 | Penny sized hail damed a vehicle and some windows. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Hope | $500 | Law Enforcement reported 1 foot of water across K4 west of Hope. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Hope | $500 | Law Enforcement reported 1 foot of water across K4 west of Hope. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hope | - | Ping pong ball size hail in town of Hope. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Hope | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Hope | - | A NWS storm survey revealed damage to structures including homes from a tornado that formed around or shortly before 8 pm CDT just to the southeast of Hope, KS. The tornado tracked to the ENE passing approximately 2 miles north of Herington KS before moving into Morris county KS. EF1 damage was noted at 2 properties including garage damage to one home. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | - | Estimated wind gust report. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Hope | - | Report from Ramona volunteer FD of a brief tornado touchdown north of town in Dickinson County. No damage and circulation on ground was only visible briefly. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Hope | - | Water was reported flowing over K4 highway west of Hope. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Hope | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. Water was reported running over Kansas highway 4 near Hope. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hope | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hope | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Hope | - | 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 100011740 in Record Group 79. |
| Dickinson County | All 48 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.