Coon Creek Crossing on the Santa Fe Trail (Wet Route)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Pawnee County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. US 56, Garfield, 67529
When was it listed? July 2013
Category. site
Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
Township. Garfield township
National Register reference number. 13000493 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Coon Creek Crossing on the Santa Fe Trail (Wet Route) between 2015 and 2018, burning about 80 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	26
11 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	15
14 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	12
13 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	10
6 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	5
6 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	6
28 November 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	18
31 January 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	4

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this property

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garfield, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 45 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 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
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	$10,000	Power poles were blown down and all power was out in Garfield.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Garfield	$1,000	Highway 56 at Garfield was flooded with 6 to 8 inches of water. Some homes also had some flooding.
May 2025	Hail	Garfield	-	A mPING report. Time adjusted based on radar.
May 2024	Heavy Rain	Garfield	-	Rainfall report of 1.54 inches.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	Several 6-8 inch tree limbs down in City Park.
May 2019	Flood	Garfield	-	Highway 156 was closed in a few spots as water ran across the road surface.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	A one diameter tree branch was broken at this location. Also pea sized hail accompanied the high wind.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	Tree branches of 3 inches in diameter were broken by the high wind. Also, 3/4 inch diameter hail fell with the wind.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	Tree branches of 3 inches in diameter were broken by the high wind. Also, 3/4 inch diameter hail fell with the wind.
May 2009	Hail	Garfield	-	Estimated winds of 65 mph accompanied the hail.
August 2008	Heavy Rain	Garfield	-	Rainfall of 3.50 was measured and it was still raining at the time of the observation was made.
May 2007	Flood	Garfield	-	One residence was sand bagging from flooding in town.
May 2007	Flood	Garfield	-	One residence was sand bagging from flooding in town.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	Also had slightly bigger than pea size hail.
May 2007	Hail	Garfield	-	It hailed until 920 PM.
March 2004	Tornado (F0)	Garfield	-	This was a brief "rope" reaching the ground.
June 2004	Hail	Garfield	-	The hail lasted 15 minutes. There was a lot of damage to vehicles and the houses siding
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	Two inch tree limbs down.
May 2024	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
October 2023	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
October 2023	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
July 2007	Flood	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
October 2004	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
September 2003	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Garfield	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Garfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fort Larned National Historic Site	6.7 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000493 in Record Group 79.
Pawnee 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.