Lowe Center School-District 115

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lowe Center School--District 115 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SW. corner Indian & 27th Rds., Morrowville, 66955
When was it listed? April 2014
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
Township. Lowe township
National Register reference number. 14000119 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lowe Center School-District 115 between 2014 and 2020, burning about 220 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 March 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	60 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 February 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 February 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 October 2020	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

60 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrowville, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 45 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind. 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 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	$5,000	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	$2,000	Trained spotters and Law enforcement officers reported 70 to 80 mph wind gusts across Washington County. In Washington numerous trees were uprooted, which brought down several power lines.
June 1994	Hail	Morrowville	$500	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Morrowville	-	Half dollar size hail, also estimating 50 mph winds.
May 2023	Hail	Morrowville	-	Ping pong ball sized hail reported.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	Trees of 8 to 12 inches in diameter uprooted.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	Walls caved in on empty grain bins, tin roof blown off shed, utility trailer rolled.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	Damage to outbuildings and several 3 inch tree limbs down.
April 2022	Hail	Morrowville	-	Nickel sized hail reported.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	Report of multiple large trees down.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	Dead trees knocked over, 12 inches in diameter.
June 2020	Hail	Morrowville	-	Wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph also reported.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	Estimated wind gust.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	A pole barn was blown over along with 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs snapped.
April 2015	Hail	Morrowville	-	Winds estimated around 40 mph.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	Wind gusts estimated.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	A trained spotter near Morrowville reported a 60 mph wind gust.
August 2009	Hail	Morrowville	-	This report was relayed via the Sheriff's Office.
April 2026	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrowville	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Morrowville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000119 in Record Group 79.
Washington 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.