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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Pottawatomie County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Joseph Heptig Barn
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Heptig, Joseph, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 12115 Antons Rd., Flush, 66535
- When was it listed? October 2011
- Category. building
- Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
- Township. Pottawatomie township
- National Register reference number. 11000728 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
54 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Joseph Heptig Barn between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2,051 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Pottawatomie County | 144 |
| 22 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 84 |
| 8 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176025 |
| 7 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 107 |
| 2 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1176008 |
| 5 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 93 |
| 21 May 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 58 |
| 5 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Kansas Counties | DEXTER |
Storms near this property
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flush, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Flush | $50,000 | Officially, four to six inches of rain with locally nearly 7.75 inches in less than four hours led to flash flooding over central and southwest Pottawatomie county. One unofficial amount of nearly 12.5 inches was noted in a newspaper report. There was enough force from the running water to pull hedge posts buried over 3 and a half feet out of the ground on one homestead. Several area roads were closed and parts of the Flush road were washed out. | |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | $8,000 | Strong thunderstorms brought periods of strong winds and heavy rain to portions of Pottawatomie County on the afternoon of Aug 10, 2010. These storms produced strong winds which broke or damaged 6 power poles near a landfill along Wheaton Road near Louisville. The Kansas Department of Transportation reported a roof was torn off a barn-style metal shed located near Highway 24 and Onaga Road. Many spotters throughout the area reported 60 to 70 mph winds with this storm. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Flush | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | - | Tree limbs down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | - | Estimated wind gust report. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | - | Wind gusts estimated. No major damage to report. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Flush | - | Photo reported on social media...time estimated from radar. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Flush | - | Mostly dime size hail. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Flush | - | Flush road was closed 10 miles northwest of Wamego near Hopkins Creek. Two roads also flooded on the north side of Milford Lake near Milford. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Flush | - | The mesocyclone within this thunderstorm produced a tornado in western Pottawatomie County which lifted, then produced a second, stronger tornado that went through Soldier. This tornado produced only minor damage for the most part. The beginning of the tornado path was marked by broken large tree branches. Along the path, more large tree branches were broken, a grain bin was blown into a field, and several tree tops were damaged. The end of the tornado path was near where several trees were broken off in a cemetary to the north-northwest of Louisville. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Flush | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Flush | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John McKimmons Barn | 7.9 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11000728 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.
- 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.