1927 Hillsboro Water Tower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2011 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 objectss, 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lots 10 & 11, Blk. 2, Hill's 2nd Addition., Hillsboro, 67063
When was it listed? October 2011
Category. structure
City. Hillsboro city
National Register reference number. 11000727 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

36 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of 1927 Hillsboro Water Tower between 2015 and 2020, burning about 538 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
11 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	82
4 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	99
17 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Marion County	81
16 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	not named
31 May 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	83
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	62
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	41
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	23

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

60 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 66 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 26 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 4 tornado. 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 2001	Lightning	Hillsboro	$1,500,000	City of Hillsboro electrical and maintenance building was struck and considered a total loss. Time of occurrence is approximate.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$40,000	A powerful thunderstorm produced extensive damage throughout the town of Hillsboro. Numerous large trees were uprooted, utility poles were downed, and street signs were blown over. Consequently, much of the town lost power. Fortunately, structural damage was relatively light, with the exception of three large umbrella-shaped canopies destroyed at the Hillsboro Family Aquatic Center. Information courtesy of the Hillsboro Star newspaper.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$30,000	Law enforcement reports large trees down. The KSN weather lab at Marion High School reported a wind gust to 57 mph.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$15,000	Winds estimated around 80 mph damaged a handful of farmsteads just west of Hillsboro. Outbuildings were heavily damaged or destroyed, windows were broken, trees were uprooted and limbs snapped. Information courtesy of the Peabody Gazette-Bulletin.
April 2008	Hail	Hillsboro	$15,000	Ten to fifteen minutes of dime to nickel size hail caused some scattered, mostly minor roof damage across Hillsboro. However, one business's tar roof was possibly totaled, along with a broken skylight.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$5,000	Winds estimated around 70 mph broke numerous home windows on the west side of Hillsboro. Information courtesy of the Peabody Gazette-Bulletin.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$5,000	Large trees were downed just north of Hillsboro.
May 1993	Hail	Hillsboro	$5,000	A thunderstorm dropped three-quarter inch hail briefly at Hillsboro.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$1,000	Large tree branches were knocked down.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	Estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	Emergency call center reports trees down.
June 2023	Heavy Rain	Hillsboro	-	Twenty four hour total of a Cocorahs observer of 1.38 inches.
September 2023	Flood	Hillsboro	-	Emergency manager reported a number of streets flooded in the city of Hillsboro.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Hillsboro	-	A Cocorahs observer reported 2.67 inches in 24 hours.
November 2022	Heavy Rain	Hillsboro	-	A Cocorahs observer reported 2.72 inches of rainfall.
April 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Hillsboro	-	There was a brief touchdown in an open field.
May 2021	Heavy Rain	Hillsboro	-	This was a 24 hour rainfall report from the KS Mesonet.
May 2020	Flood	Hillsboro	-	Minor street and low land flooding was reported in most communities across the county due to heavy rain on top of already saturated grounds. Most rainfall amounts were between 1 and 2.5 inches.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	This was an estimated wind gust.
May 2019	Hail	Hillsboro	-	Received via social media.
May 2019	Flood	Hillsboro	-	A water rescue occurred at 170th & Falcon Rd.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	There were no reports of damage.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Hillsboro	-	Water was reported over the bridge.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Hillsboro	-	The emergency manager measured 6.5 inches of rain.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	The winds occurred with golfball size hail.
February 2012	Hail	Hillsboro	-	The hail occurred with winds estimated at 70 mph along Highway 15 north-northwest of Hillsboro.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Hillsboro	-	Numerous, slow-moving thunderstorms produced widespread 3 to 5 inch rainfall amounts from roughly Goessel to Hillsboro to Lincolnville during the late afternoon hours on May 23rd, to the early morning hours on May 24th. This caused widespread countywide flash flooding. Numerous county roads were closed due to high water.
May 2002	Tornado (F0)	Hillsboro	-	A brief touchdown in open country.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	No reports of damage.
May 1999	Tornado (F0)	Hillsboro	-	Remained over open country.
October 1997	Tornado (F0)	Hillsboro	-	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN OVER OPEN COUNTRY
April 2026	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
March 2009	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Hillsboro	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	William F. and Ida G. Schaeffler House	0.3 miles	2002
	Pioneer Adobe House	0.4 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000727 in Record Group 79.
Marion County	All 28 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.