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One of 3 National Register listings published here for Meade County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hotel Bunyan
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. 211 Main Street, Fowler, 67844
- When was it listed? August 2025
- Category. building
- Township. Fowler township
- National Register reference number. 100012120 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Bunyan between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,634 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 17 June 2017 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Meade County | 0FFD023 |
| 29 December 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,000 acres | Meade County | not named |
| 3 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | Meade County | SEYFERT |
| 9 October 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 0FFD011 |
| 21 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Meade County | 0FFD004 |
Storms near this property
60 of 119 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fowler, the town this property stands in, in 119 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 86 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Fowler | $1,000,000 | Rainfall of nearly 10 inches caused very severe flash flooding. Water came across highway 23 and washed an old concrete truck full of concrete across the highway and into an adjacent draw about 400 yards away. The drum of concrete had been there for decades. Also, water washed out a bridge and a resident of nearly 90 years had never seen so much water. The majority of the rain fell in a 3 hour period. |
| March 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Fowler | $75,000 | This tornado damaged a shed and some trees west of Fowler and a pivot irrigation sprinkler northwest of Fowler. The tornado moved into Gray county at 752 PM CDT. |
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Fowler | $50,000 | The second tornado to form started 6.3 miles northwest of Fowler at 1011 PM and traveled a total of 17 miles dissipating at 1040 PM 7 miles southwest of the Dodge City Post Office. It did EF1 damage to five pivot irrigation sprinklers, trees and some outbuildings...in addition to moving a 3000 gallon tank about 1/2 of a mile. In Meade county it tipped over a pivot sprinkler before moving into Ford county at 1014 PM. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Fowler | - | The hail was penny to quarter sized. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Fowler | - | This was brief and intermittent tornado. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Fowler | - | The rain gauge that holds 10 inches overflowed. There was severe flooding in the area. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Fowler | - | Siding damage was indicated. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Fowler | - | The 6 inch capacity rain gauge overflowed. Estimated 7 inches but it could have been more. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Fowler | - | Flooding was reported in Fowler. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF2) | Fowler | - | This tornado damaged high voltage transmission lines and poles, pivot irrigation sprinklers, a home and trees. A stock trailer was tossed through the side of the home but fortunately all occupants were in the basement. A car in the driveway was carried and then dropped in a field about 100 miles to the north-northeast. There were no roll marks from the vehicle. The tornado moved into Ford County. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Fowler | - | Winds of 50 to 60 mph were also reported with the hail. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Winds were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Fowler | - | A storm chaser reported a large cone shaped funnel almost 1/2 way to the ground. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Fowler | - | A weak vortex existed for about a minute as it traveled west. The tornado was typical of what one would see in a tropical environment. |
| February 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Fowler | - | The first tornado started at 956 PM CST 8.5 miles west of Fowler in Meade county and traveled about 2.5 miles before dissipating at 1006 PM 7.5 miles northwest of Fowler. It did very minor damage to some trees. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Fowler | - | This tornado damaged a home, trees, power lines and several center pivot sprinklers. The forward flanking downdraft heavily damaged the Fowler high school roof. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Fowler | - | This satellite tornado traveled southwest striking a center pivot sprinkler. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Six power poles were snapped off at the base |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Fowler | - | A brief tornado formed but did not hit anything. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Fowler | - | Hail completely covered the road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fowler Swimming Pool and Bathhouse | 0.4 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012120 in Record Group 79. |
| Meade County | All 3 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.