Arvonia School

Built in 1871 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Arvonia School, on South Arvonia Road in Lebo, Kansas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.”
Wikipedia article Arvonia School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Osage County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1871, vernacular architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S. 9th St., Lebo, 66523
When was it listed? July 2012
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
Township. Arvonia township
When was it built? 1871
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 12000387 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

19 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Arvonia School between 2015 and 2020, burning about 261 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
12 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	486
8 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
20 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	190
13 April 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Osage County	170109
11 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	174
10 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Osage County	170107
29 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	Kansas Forest Service	128
13 March 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	159

Every fire recorded in Osage 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
Calvinistic Methodist Church	under 500 feet	2012
Arvonia Township Hall	under 500 feet	2017
Luther Severy & Son Stock Farm	6.4 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Osage 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.