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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Cherokee County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Baxter Springs High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1520 Cleveland Ave., Baxter Springs, 66713
- When was it listed? August 2014
- Category. building
- Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
- City. Baxter Springs city
- National Register reference number. 14000479 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
143 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Baxter Springs High School between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,945 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 11 were 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 | 59 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Miami Agency | SNAKE PIT |
| 29 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 177 |
| 27 September 2010 | Natural | 3.8 acres | Miami Agency | MATTCRAW |
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Cherokee County | 166 |
| 8 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 147 |
| 13 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 151 |
| 7 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Miami Agency | CLEET |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 47 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Baxter Springs High School: 45 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wade Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1920, 1926 | |
| Bingham Sand & Gravel Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Miami Ready Mix Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Baxter Springs | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Ribbon and Lucky Jenny Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1917, 1919 | |
| Brugger Tract | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1935 | |
| Campbell Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1925, 1928 | |
| Consolidated Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1916, 1919 | |
| Davenport Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1917, 1919 | |
| Foley Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1928, 1930 |
Storms near this property
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baxter Springs, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baxter Springs | $500 | Tree limbs were blown down in the Baxter Springs and Galena areas. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Baxter Springs | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Flash Flood | Baxter Springs | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rial A. Niles House | 0.3 miles | 2006 |
 | Baxter Springs Independent Oil and Gas Service Station | 0.4 miles | 2003 |
 | Johnston Library | 0.5 miles | 1976 |
| Kansas Route 66 Historic District-North Baxter Springs | 1.5 miles | 2017 | |
| Kansas Route 66 Historic District-North Baxter Springs | 1.5 miles | 2015 | |
| Kansas Route 66 Historic District-North Baxter Springs | 3.6 miles | 2017 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000479 in Record Group 79. |
| Cherokee County | All 15 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.