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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Pottawatomie County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Verschelden Funeral Home
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. 714 Maple Street, St. Marys, 66536
- When was it listed? December 2025
- Category. building
- Township. St. Marys township
- National Register reference number. 100012439 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
35 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Verschelden Funeral Home between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,564 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 201546 |
| 10 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1824 |
| 4 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201525 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1821 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1820 |
| 14 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201523 |
| 1 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201509 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pottawatomie Indian Pay Station | 0.7 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012439 in Record Group 79. |
| Pottawatomie County | All 14 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.