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One of 17 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bank of Powhattan Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 302 Main Street, Powhattan, 66527
- When was it listed? June 2025
- Category. building
- Township. Powhattan township
- National Register reference number. 100011913 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
26 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Bank of Powhattan Building between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,176 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Horton Agency | GOLDEN EAGLE |
| 7 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Horton Agency | ROSS |
| 22 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Horton Agency | BUSTED KNUCKLE |
| 24 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Horton Agency | WENGER |
| 6 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018029 |
| 6 April 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Horton Agency | GARCIA |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Horton Agency | GOLDFINCH |
| 2 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 24 acres | Horton Agency | MIDNIGHT |
Storms near this property
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powhattan, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | $5,000 | Strong winds blew a 35 foot section of a roof off a residence. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | - | Estimated gusts near 60 mph near Powhattan. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | - | Personal weather station measured a wind gust of 68 mph. |
| November 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | - | Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | - | A 10 inch diameter limb came down in Powhattan. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Powhattan | - | A wall cloud with a funnel was reported by the public. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | - | Barns were blown down. Reported by the county sheriff. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | - | Power lines downed. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Powhattan | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powhattan | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Delaware River Warren Truss Bridge | 4.5 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011913 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 17 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.