Athol Community Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Smith County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

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. 320 Main St, Athol, 66932
When was it listed? August 2025
Category. building
Township. Lane township
National Register reference number. 100012145 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Athol Community Hall between 2015 and 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
15 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015005
24 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Smith County	2017021
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015003
12 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Smith County	2017006

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athol, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 17 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Athol	$100,000	Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in the destruction of a new outbuilding as well as tree damage in the general area.
May 2018	Hail	Athol	$50,000	no account filed
March 2018	Hail	Athol	$25,000	Hail ranging in size from quarters to ping pong balls was reported along this path.
May 2012	Hail	Athol	$25,000	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Athol	$25,000	no account filed
May 1999	Flash Flood	Athol	$15,000	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Athol	$5,000	no account filed
April 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Athol	$2,000	A tornado moved across rural areas of northern Smith County north of Athol. This tornado damaged some trees near its starting point and turned over a small mobile building along its way north. The tornado passed near a local limestone quarry. The path was based on a combination of damage indicators in the field and radar Correlation Coefficient signatures.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Athol	$2,000	Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in trees being downed onto Highway 8.
September 2019	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Athol	-	no account filed
April 2003	Funnel Cloud	Athol	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed
September 1995	Hail	Athol	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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

3 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
First National Bank Building	7.2 miles	2006
Martyn House	7.6 miles	2001
Grimes House	7.6 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012145 in Record Group 79.
Smith County	All 5 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.