Sunflower Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“De Soto is a city along the Kansas River, in Johnson and Leavenworth counties in the U.S. state of Kansas, and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 6,118, and the 2025 estimate is 7,083.”
Wikipedia article De Soto, Kansas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 36000 103rd St., DeSoto, 66018
When was it listed? November 2014
Category. district
City. De Soto city
National Register reference number. 14000929 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

109 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Sunflower Village Historic District between 2001 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	45
Debris and open burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2460114
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2160006
28 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2400166
10 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2220156
1 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kansas State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	198
4 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	337
30 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Johnson County	2110105

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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

2 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
	Louis & Rachel Hammer Barn	5.4 miles	2022
	WPA Beach House at Gardner Lake	7.8 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000929 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 34 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.