First Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 704 8th Street, Baldwin, 66006
When was it listed? August 2025
Category. building
Township. Palmyra township
National Register reference number. 100012097 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

57 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of First Methodist Episcopal Church between 2015 and 2020, burning about 301 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	16
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
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	311
10 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	244
5 May 2017	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Franklin County	32
27 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	229
8 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	39
28 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	51
28 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	29
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Kansas Forest Service	163

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Case Library	0.1 miles	1986
Parmenter Memorial Hall	0.2 miles	1977
Old Castle Hall, Baker University	0.2 miles	1971
Baldwin City School and Auditorium-Gymnasium	0.3 miles	2015
William A. Quayle House	0.6 miles	1995
Santa Fe Depot	0.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012097 in Record Group 79.
Douglas County	All 118 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.