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One of 17 National Register listings published here for Brown County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bethany Brethren Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 121 1st St., Hamlin, 66434
- When was it listed? October 2012
- Category. building
- Township. Hamlin township
- National Register reference number. 12000843 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
18 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Bethany Brethren Church between 2005 and 2020, burning about 288 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Brown County | 78 |
| 28 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Brown County | 12 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 31 |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 4 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 31 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 89 acres | Horton Agency | FINGER |
| 3 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Brown County | 7 |
Storms near this property
5 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamlin, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2023 | Tornado (EF2) | Hamlin | - | A tornado touched down north of Hamlin and moves north-northeast producing some tree damage and overturning a center pivot before hitting a homestead. Outbuildings were completely destroyed with winds estimated to be 112 mph. The home sustained damage to the siding and roof with the windows broken out. The tornado dissipated after hitting the homestead. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamlin | - | Report of 60 mph wind gust. |
| October 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Hamlin | - | A small brief tornado developed along a line of storms. It tracked northeast and damaged one known farmstead. Start and end points and time is estimated based on tornado damage signature dual-pol radar data and damage report. Estimated path of 3-4 miles. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Hamlin | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamlin | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Samuel Bierer House | 6.4 miles | 2010 |
| William and Augusta Guild House | 6.4 miles | 2024 | |
| Hiawatha Courthouse Square Historic District | 6.6 miles | 2006 | |
 | Hiawatha Memorial Auditorium | 6.6 miles | 1985 |
 | Hiawatha National Guard Armory | 6.9 miles | 2004 |
 | Davis Memorial | 7.6 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000843 in Record Group 79. |
| Brown County | All 17 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.