Derby Public School-District 6

Built in 1923 (Collegiate Gothic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 148 National Register listings published here for Sedgwick County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1923, Collegiate Gothic.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 716 E. Market St., Derby, 67037
When was it listed? October 2014
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
Township. Rockford township
When was it built? 1923
Architectural style. Collegiate Gothic
National Register reference number. 14000832 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

156 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Derby Public School-District 6 between 2015 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	75
Debris and open burning	42
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	4
Other causes	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
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sedgwick County	6453
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1541
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sedgwick County	6341
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sedgwick County	55007
6 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1378
31 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sedgwick County	6190
27 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sedgwick County	6094
24 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	6449

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this property

60 of 169 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Derby, the town this property stands in, in 169 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 92 hail, 54 thunderstorm wind, 12 flash flood, 5 flood. 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 2016	Flash Flood	Derby	$500,000	Significant flash flooding occurred in the town of Mulvane, Kansas. Three buildings in downtown were flooded. Styx Creek ran out of banks and caused extensive flooding to homes along it. A water rescue occurred in town due the high water. A woman is safe after fast-moving water swept her vehicle into a ditch. She had been standing on top of her car and holding onto a tree while she was on the phone with 911.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$500,000	NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN DOWN, METAL BARN BLOWN DOWN @ 119TH & HILLSIDE. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO FARM DWELLINGS, STRUCTURES & MACHINERY.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$125,000	Damage was reported to several roofs.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$75,000	Numerous power lines were blown down and a 50 by 50 foot barn was destroyed.
June 2013	Lightning	Derby	$50,000	A building caught fire. The extent of damage is unknown at this time.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Derby	$30,000	Mulvane fire and rescue responded to a submersion and water rescue of a car near 119th and Webb Road.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$27,000	High winds knocked out power to Mulvane.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$25,000	Winds were strong enough to lift up the roof of the Mulvane High School causing interior ceiling tiles to be blown down.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$10,000	A window frame was torn out as well as car windows were blown out.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$10,000	A large tree was knocked down onto the city office, blocking the drive thru payment window. Several other trees were knocked down across town.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds downed a power pole part-way in Derby during the predawn hours on the 30th. The pole had to be replaced, and some relatively minor damaged was sustained to neighboring businesses due to electrical wire tension from the leaning pole. The Derby Informer contributed to this report.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$5,000	There was reportedly some damage inflicted to a roof near the intersection of 63rd and Rock Road.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$5,000	Large birch tree blown down.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$2,500	Mulvane Fire department measured the gust. Several tree limbs were reported down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$1,000	A large tree was downed, and 8 to 10-inch diameter tree limbs were snapped.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$1,000	The public reported shingle damage in Derby. The report was relayed via KSNW Television.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	$500	Several 2 to 3 inch diameter tree limbs were downed near 63rd St. South and Greenwich Road.
June 2022	Flood	Derby	$100	Streets were reported flooded.
June 2022	Flood	Derby	$100	Street flooding was reported in Derby.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Derby	$100	Numerous roads were closed due to high water, in and around 119th and Greenwich. Dog creek was reported to be bankfull.
May 2019	Flood	Derby	$100	Water was reported over Webb Road from 111th to 119th Street.
May 2019	Flood	Derby	$100	Water was reported over the road at 127th Street East and 95th street south.
April 2026	Hail	Derby	-	The hail report was received via mPing.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	An Accuweather meteorologist relayed the estimated wind gust.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts between 60 and 65 mph.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	This was measured on a personal weather station.
June 2025	Hail	Derby	-	Pictures from a Derby Fire Captain of ping pong ball sized hail were relayed.
June 2025	Hail	Derby	-	Quarter to half dollar sized hail was relayed to KAKE via a picture.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	Several large tree branches down along with a power pole leaning over a roadway.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	Reported by off-duty Air Force Weather personnel.
October 2023	Heavy Rain	Derby	-	A mesonet station near Mulvane measured 4.53 inches of rain in the past 24 hours with most of the rain occurring overnight into the morning hours. Rainfall amounts across the county ranged from 2.5 to 4.53 inches.
November 2022	Heavy Rain	Derby	-	A mesonet reported 1.72 inches of rainfall.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	A storm tracker for KS sent a video of a large tree knocked over at the Hidden Lakes Golf Course.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	A storm tracker for KSN reported an estimated 60 to 70 mph wind gust. There were tree limbs knocked down as well as a portion of her fence.
June 2022	Hail	Derby	-	The hail was reported by Mping.
June 2022	Heavy Rain	Derby	-	A Cocorahs observer reported 4.3 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
May 2021	Hail	Derby	-	The report was relayed via mping.
May 2020	Hail	Derby	-	The report was relayed via social media.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	A personal weather station measured the gust.
April 2019	Hail	Derby	-	Report was provided by KAKE Television.
April 2019	Hail	Derby	-	Relayed from KAKE television.
April 2019	Hail	Derby	-	Report via Twitter.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	Power lines were blown down in Derby. The time of the event is estimated from radar.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	A large tree was blown down across Highway 81.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Derby	-	Madison Ave. & Westview were underwater.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Derby	-	Portions of Greenwich road were flooded and under water.
July 2019	Hail	Derby	-	The hail was reported via social media.
July 2019	Hail	Derby	-	The hail was reported via social media.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	The reported came in via social media.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	Reported at Webb and 119th streets.
June 2017	Hail	Derby	-	This report is courtesy KFDI radio.
June 2017	Hail	Derby	-	Report from Twitter on social media.
August 2017	Hail	Derby	-	Fifty mph winds were also reported.
April 2016	Hail	Derby	-	No damage was reported.
April 2016	Hail	Derby	-	Reported by the public to Kwch-Tv.
April 2016	Hail	Derby	-	The public reported that the hail was pea to nickel sized and covered the ground.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Derby	-	Several inches of water was reported over the road and causing travel problems.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Derby	-	Water was reported over the road and causing travel issues.
April 2016	Hail	Derby	-	No damage was reported.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Derby	-	Pea sized hail was also reported.

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Vickers Petroleum Service Station	5.1 miles	2019
Administration Building	6.1 miles	1990
John Mack Bridge	8.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000832 in Record Group 79.
Sedgwick County	All 148 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.