Belleville High School

Built in 1931 (Collegiate Gothic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Belleville High School, later Republic County Middle School, is a school building constructed in 1931 in Belleville, Kansas. Voigt designed the school in the Collegiate Gothic style.”
Wikipedia article Belleville High School (Belleville, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Republic County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1931, Collegiate Gothic, by S.S. Voigt.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 915 W. 18th St., Belleville, 66935
When was it listed? June 2013
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
City. Belleville city
When was it built? 1931
Architectural style. Collegiate Gothic
Architect. S.S. Voigt
National Register reference number. 13000434 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Belleville High School in 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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	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
6 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	4

Every fire recorded in Republic County

Storms near this property

60 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belleville, the town this property stands in, in 94 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 46 hail, 34 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 6 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Belleville	2 hurt	Survey revealed that the initial tornado touchdown occurred around 650pm CDT just north of Belleville. The tornado then moved northeast and produced sporadic damage in rural areas of Republic County. It did hit the small town of Munden where several homes were damaged and a mobile home was destroyed. Another farmstead was also damaged northeast of Munden. The end of the tornado occurred south of Narka where some light tree damage was documented.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$775,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Belleville	$75,000	Large hail damaged windows and several vehicles in Belleville.
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Belleville	$50,000	A tornado touched down near the southwest edge of Belleville and traveled 1/2 mile through parts of town before dissipating. The roof of a Dairy Queen was destroyed in Belleville.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Belleville	$20,000	Street flooding reported in Munden. 18 inches of water running over 220 Road near Munden. 8 to 10 inches of water over all of Main Street in south Belleville. Several other streets flooded in Belleville. Some cars stalled in the water.
April 2001	Tornado (F1)	Belleville	$20,000	A tornado touched down south of Belleville and moved northeast doing intermittant damage along a 10 mile path before dissipating.
May 2004	Hail	Belleville	$10,000	Large hail struck Belleville doing some damage to roofs of homes and vehicles.
May 1996	Hail	Belleville	$10,000	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$5,000	Sixty mph winds blew a 40 to 50 foot section of roof off of a livestock sale barn.
July 1994	Hail	Belleville	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Belleville	$5,000	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$2,000	Strong winds downed power lines, stree signs and trees.
July 2023	Hail	Belleville	-	Nickel and quarter sized hail reported.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Wind gusts estimated between 50 and 60 mph.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Dispatch reported a couple of trees blown down across a road in town.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Telephone pole was snapped at the intersection of Highway 81 and M Street.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	A few railroad cars blown over on Lincoln Road between 190 Road and 200 Road. One car blocking Lincoln Road. Time estimated.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Estimated wind gust.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Delayed report of power lines down with a few transformers damaged. At least one tree was uprooted with several large broken tree limbs across the town. Time was estimated via radar.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Davis weatherlink site observed wind gust.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Widespread tree limbs down in Belleville. The diameter of the tree limbs was unknown.
May 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Belleville	-	Input from available data sources including radar, near storm environmental parameters and photos of damage suggest that at least some of the damage in Belleville could have been attributed to a brief weak tornado. Damage indicators only show EF0 damage with mainly tree limbs down. No structural damage was reported.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Several 2 inch diameter tree limbs down. Time was estimated based on radar.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Emergency manager reported a swath of straight line wind damage from roughly 1 mile south of Belleville to roughly 3 miles northeast of Belleville. Outbuilding and grain bins were damaged. Time was estimated by radar.
May 2016	Hail	Belleville	-	Hail size determined via social media photo.
May 2016	Hail	Belleville	-	Hail report via social media.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Wind gusts estimated.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Wind gusts estimated.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Wind gusts estimated.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Tree branch of 3 inches diameter was damaged due to wind.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Power lines down in the area.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Reports of power lines down and medium sized trees uprooted.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Power lines down. Law enforcement reported power outages in Belleville.
June 2009	Hail	Belleville	-	Republic County sheriff reported golf ball size hail.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	A tree of unknown diameter was blown onto 25th street blocking the roadway. The tree also knocked down a powerline.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	A fence secured in the ground by concrete was blown down.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	A shed was blown over near the begnning of the damage path, and a barn collapsed onto a tractor near the end. Trees were reported down along the path, and a home on Nickel Road has it's roof partially torn off. The same home had it's carport destroyed. Tree limbs were reported down across Belleville. A house near the intersection of N and 24th Streets had a large limb fall onto a nearby power line and porch. A wall on the south side of the Belleville Car Wash was also blown down by the strong winds. Wind damage continued along a swath from 6 miles south of Belleville to Hanover in Washington County. Near Hanover, minor damage was reported across the town. A tree fell onto the roof of a home on the west side of the home, causing damage to a home.
June 2008	Hail	Belleville	-	Fifty mile per hour winds also reported.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Belleville	-	Water one foot deep reported to be flowing over Lincoln Road.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Large tree limbs down in town.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Commercial dumpsters blown over.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Estimated by Sheriff Deputy on Highway 81.
May 2004	Hail	Belleville	-	Large hail did extensive crop damage near Belleville.
May 2004	Funnel Cloud	Belleville	-	A funnel cloud was sighted over Belleville.
May 2004	Flash Flood	Belleville	-	Heavy rains of 2 to 4 inches produced runoff that flooded many roads for a time.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Belleville	-	A tornado touched down briefly in open country.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Belleville	-	Water was reported over a number of roads throughout Republic county.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Belleville	-	Heavy rains produced flash flooding with water reported over the roadway at the junction of highways 81 and 36 near Belleville.
April 2026	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Republic 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

5 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
US Post Office-Belleville	under 500 feet	1989
S.T. Stevenson House	0.3 miles	2010
Republic County Courthouse	0.7 miles	2002
Riley Creek Bridge	2.5 miles	1990
East Riley Creek Bridge	2.8 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000434 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Republic County	All 11 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.