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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Creed-Mills House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Creed--Mills House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 219 N. Maple St., Douglass, 67039
- When was it listed? June 2013
- Category. building
- Township. Douglass township
- National Register reference number. 13000430 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
41 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Creed-Mills House between 2002 and 2020, burning about 536 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Cowley County | 2017155 |
| 25 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Butler County | 92 |
| 25 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Butler County | 326 |
| 23 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 411 |
| 13 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Butler County | 84 |
| 9 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 85 |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 278 |
| 8 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
60 of 113 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglass, the town this property stands in, in 113 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 55 hail, 45 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $75,000 | The emergency manager reported two mobile homes just northeast of town were destroyed. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Douglass | $55,000 | Local broadcast media reported that a mobile home park was being evacuated due to high water in the town of Douglass. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $50,000 | A large barn was destroyed by the damaging winds. |
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Douglass | $30,000 | A tornado was on the ground for 5 minutes and produced several power flashes. One home and some outbuildings sustained damage. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $20,000 | Wind damage occurred to a barn, an outbuilding and to the main house. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $20,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 100 mph blew down numerous trees and removed roofs to several sheds. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $15,000 | Butler County Emergency Management relayed a report of a destroyed barn. The time of the event was estimated from radar. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $10,000 | There were reports of downed power lines along Highway 77 on the north side of Douglass. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $10,000 | Two to four inch diameter trees were reported down. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $5,000 | Damage occurred to numerous structures. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $5,000 | Damage occurred to a barn. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $5,000 | A large tree was broken at the base. The tree diameter was 17 inches, but the tree was dying due to the hollowed out portion of the trunk. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Douglass | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $2,500 | The emergency manager confirmed that several limbs were downed. Amateur radio also reported that a few light poles were downed. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $2,000 | The winds uprooted a 60 foot tall, 2 foot diameter tree. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $1,000 | Tree with 1.5 inch diameter trunk uprooted and fell onto elementary school. Damage to school unspecified. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | $500 | The winds knocked down ten inch diameter tree limbs. |
| May 2010 | Flood | Douglass | $100 | Low lying areas around town were flooded. |
| November 2025 | Hail | Douglass | - | A spotter reported lots of dime to quarter-sized hail resulting in about one to two inches of hail accumulation. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | Tree branches up to 10 inches in diameter were reported down. A car port was flipped, and a power line was down. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | Trained spotter for the county in the Douglass area reported an estimated 60 mph gust as the storm moved through. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Douglass | - | Quarter sized hail and 50 mph winds reported. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Douglass | - | This was a spotter report relayed by emergency management. |
| June 2023 | Heavy Rain | Douglass | - | Twenty four hour total of a Cocorahs observer of 1.33 inches. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | Relayed via the Emergency Manager. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Douglass | - | Significant tree damage was noted across the community. The only structure that took any damage was one building that had half of it's roof peeled off. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | No damage was reported. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | Limbs were blown down. Torrential rains also occurred. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | No damage was reported. |
| June 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Douglass | - | Delayed report of a tornado touchdown north of town and west of Highway 77. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | A trained spotter estimated the gust. |
| October 2013 | Flood | Douglass | - | Street flooding occurred in Douglass. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | No damage reported. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter along with one half inch sized hail. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | A fence was blown down and some vinyl trim was blown off of a house. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | The public reported the strong winds. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | Penny sized hail also occurred with the high winds. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Douglass | - | In addition to the hail, 55 mph winds were reported. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Douglass | - | Occurred on North side of town. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Douglass | - | South Elm under water. Flash flooding threatening trailer park. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Douglass | - | Many streets flooded on south side of town with two vehicles submerged. In addition, six trailer homes surrrounded by flash flooding. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Douglass | - | Eight Mile Creek overflowed one mile north of the Butler/Cowley county line. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Douglass | - | Most roads in and around town flooded. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Douglass | - | Some roads flooded 3-5 inches deep. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Douglass | - | Indianola/210th St. intersection flooded 1 foot deep. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | Large limbs blown down. |
| September 2000 | Hail | Douglass | - | Occurred on Butler/Cowley county line. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | SHINGLES BLOWN OFF ROOFS, & 6 INCH TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | Greater than 60 mph winds were reported by the fire department in Andover. Several four inch diameter trees were uprooted in Douglass. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Douglass | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Douglass | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Douglass Township Community Building | 0.4 miles | 1995 |
| Muddy Creek Bridge | 3.7 miles | 1985 | |
 | Polecat Creek Bridge | 5.5 miles | 1985 |
 | Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge | 7.2 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000430 in Record Group 79. |
| Butler County | All 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.
- 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.