Whitewater Falls Stock Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 433 Falls Rd., Towanda, 67144
When was it listed? October 2014
Category. building
Also known as. Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS
Township. Fairview township
National Register reference number. 14000828 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

75 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Whitewater Falls Stock Farm between 2015 and 2020, burning about 944 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	226
10 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Butler County	192
7 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	183
28 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	243
9 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Butler County	155
4 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	207
3 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	149
21 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Butler County	36

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this property

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Towanda, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 32 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 3 tornado. 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
May 1999	Flash Flood	Towanda	$500,000	Major flash flooding occurred in Northwest Butler County along Four Mile Creek, a tributary of the Whitewater River. Several houses were reported in high water. In Towanda, the torrential rains caused widespread street flooding.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	$50,000	Mobile home received considerable roof damage and a shed was blown over.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	$5,000	Powerlines were downed in the Towanda area.
March 1993	Hail	Towanda	$5,000	no account filed
April 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Towanda	$3,000	The tornado touched down briefly in an open field and then downed a few trees.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	$3,000	Power pole was blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	$2,000	Tree damage and building damage near southwest 40th and Sante Fe Lake Road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	$1,000	Awnings were blown off, and two-inch diameter tree limbs were snapped.
April 2026	Hail	Towanda	-	Report was relayed via emergency management. Street flooding in usual locations was also reported.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	This was a measured report from a personal weather station.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	Sporadic tree limbs were down across Towanda. All limbs appeared to be less than five inches in diameter.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	Several tree limbs were down across town in excess of 10 inches in diameter.
July 2023	Heavy Rain	Towanda	-	A mesonet station measured 4.82 inches of rainfall in 12 hours.
November 2022	Heavy Rain	Towanda	-	A Cocorahs observer reported 2.20 inches of rainfall.
June 2022	Heavy Rain	Towanda	-	The public mesonet station 1.5 miles west of Towanda reported 3.82 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
May 2020	Heavy Rain	Towanda	-	This was a 24 hour rainfall report of 3.27 inches.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	A trained spotter reported the gust.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	Winds were estimated from 60 to 65 mph.
May 2016	Hail	Towanda	-	Public report via KSN Channel 3 weather.
August 2013	Flood	Towanda	-	A small amount of water was reported over some rural roads southwest of El Dorado.
April 2012	Tornado (EF1)	Towanda	-	The tornado mainly moved over open country, however, one horse farm was impacted with minimal damage to several of their barns.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	A report of a railroad tie being picked up and damaging a fence. They also reported an aluminum flagpole being snapped in half and several tree limbs at least 3 inches in diameter on the ground.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	Powerlines were blown down.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	A 10-inch diameter tree limb was downed.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	A large tree was reported to be blown down and laying across the road.
May 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Towanda	-	Tornado moved northeast over open pasture land.
July 2010	Hail	Towanda	-	The hail was reported on Highway 254.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Towanda	-	Tawakoni Road flooded from 5 miles north of Highway 254 to Northwest 30th Street. Flood depth averaged 2 feet.
April 2026	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Towanda	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	no account filed
March 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Towanda	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Towanda	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
	Towanda Masonic Lodge No. 30 A.F. and A.M.	3.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000828 in Record Group 79.
Butler County	All 26 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.