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Photograph of Amos H. Gish Building
Photograph by Art davis, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Amos H. Gish Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2012 · 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.
  • Listed as. Gish, Amos H., Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 317 S. Main, Eldorado, 67042
  • When was it listed? July 2012
  • Category. building
  • City. El Dorado city
  • National Register reference number. 12000383 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

141 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Amos H. Gish Building between 2006 and 2020, burning about 15,278 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined77
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButler County986
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreButler County918
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1035
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1031
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresButler County779
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1846
5 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service674

Every fire recorded in Butler 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Yingling Brothers Auto Companyunder 500 feet2011
El Dorado Historic District0.2 miles2013
Butler County Courthouse0.2 miles2002
El Dorado Carnegie Library0.3 miles1987
James T. Oldham House0.4 miles2006
El Dorado Missouri Pacific Depot0.5 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000383 in Record Group 79.
Butler CountyAll 26 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.