BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Morton County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 1
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- Address. 2.0 mi. S. of KS 51 at CO-KS State Line, Elkhart, 67950
- When was it listed? April 2013
- Category. site
- Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
- Township. Jones township
- National Register reference number. 13000132 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 1 between 1995 and 2020, burning about 468 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | HAPPY 57 |
| 12 August 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | ROSE |
| 17 July 2020 | Natural | 135 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MURPHY TRAIL HEAD |
| 6 June 2004 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | TP |
| 19 March 1995 | Natural | 70 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | POINT ROCK #1 |
| 19 March 1995 | Natural | 15 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | POINT ROCK #2 |
| 15 March 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 138 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | BAD GAS |
| 13 March 2002 | Smoking | 40 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | ROYAL CRWON |
Storms near this property
60 of 123 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elkhart, the town this property stands in, in 123 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 69 hail, 52 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | $15,000 | The roof off an old lumber building was blown off. Also power lines were down in the area. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Measured at the Ekhart airport. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Elkhart | - | Rainfall of 1.24 inches was observed. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Observed at the Elkhart Middle School. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| September 2017 | Hail | Elkhart | - | Winds were gusting to 50 MPH as the hail fell. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | There was pea sized hail with an estimated 60 MPH wind. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Elkhart | - | Winds gusted to 50 MPH as the hail fell. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Power poles were blown down at the intersection of Roads 3 and P. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 mph. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Measured by a television chase crew. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Large tree branches were broken all over town. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Four inch tree limbs broken. Shingles taken off the roof. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Also reported a funnel cloud overhead. |
| August 2004 | Heavy Rain | Elkhart | - | 4.35 inches of rain fell overnight |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Numerous two inch tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Elkhart | - | Hail accumulated to 3" in depth. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | Roof blown off a chicken house. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Elkhart | - | Hail completely covered the ground. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkhart | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Trail-Cimarron National Grassland Segment 2 | 1.6 miles | 2013 | |
| Point of Rocks-Middle Spring Santa Fe Trail Historic District | 4.3 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000132 in Record Group 79. |
| Morton County | All 7 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.