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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Miami County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
New Lancaster General Store
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.
- Address. 36688 New Lancaster Rd., New Lancaster, 66040
- When was it listed? October 2013
- Category. building
- Township. Miami township
- National Register reference number. 13000817 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of New Lancaster General Store between 2015 and 2017, burning about 11 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 113 |
| 12 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Miami County | 21 |
| 10 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Miami County | 20 |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Miami County | 13 |
| 29 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Miami County | 21 |
| 28 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Miami County | 20 |
| 27 January 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 0127-01 |
Storms near this property
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | New Lancaster | 1 killed | A vehicle hydroplaned off the road on HWY 69 near 363rd Street. The vehicle left the roadway, then sank into the flooded ditch alongside the road. An occupant in the vehicle perished. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down with winds estimated to 60 mph. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | - | Downed trees and wires west of Drexel. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | - | Personal weather station recorded wind gust 65 mph just west of Drexel. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | New Lancaster | - | HWY 69 at 359th St was closed due to flash flooding. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | - | Numerous trees and powerlines were reported down in the vicinity of 327th and Beaver Creek Rd. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | - | High winds picked up dust reducing visibility to around an 1/8th of a mile. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | New Lancaster | - | Tornado just near New Lancaster in Miami county Kansas moved northeast into Cass county Missouri. The tornado was over open country. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | New Lancaster | - | Thunderstorms produced 1 to 3 inches of rain in a two hour time frame. Numerous streets were flooded in New Lancaster . The main road through New Lancaster was closed due to high water on the roadway. |
| August 2018 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Lancaster Grange Hall, No. 223 | 0.2 miles | 2013 | |
| Jake's Branch of Middle Creek Bridge | 4.0 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000817 in Record Group 79. |
| Miami County | All 19 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.