BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Cherokee County · listed in 2015 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Kansas Route 66 Historic District-North Baxter Springs
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. N. Willow Ave., SE. 50th St., Baxter Springs, 66713
- When was it listed? April 2015
- Category. district
- Also known as. Route 66 in Kansas MPS
- Township. Spring Valley township
- National Register reference number. 15000141 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
117 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Kansas Route 66 Historic District-North Baxter Springs between 1998 and 2020, burning about 679 acres in total. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 53 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 177 |
| 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 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 166 |
| 22 July 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Miami Agency | HOCKERVILL |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Kansas Route 66 Historic District-North Baxter Springs: 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bingham Sand & Gravel Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| James Orr Chubb Land | Zinc | Past Producer | 1935 | |
| Miami Ready Mix Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Wade Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1920, 1926 | |
| Aztec | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | 1918, 1921 | |
| Baxter Springs | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Bonnett Mine | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | 1918, 1921 | |
| Blue Mound Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1918, 1920 | |
| Blue Ribbon and Lucky Jenny Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1917, 1919 | |
| Brugger Tract | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1935 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas Route 66 Historic District-North Baxter Springs | under 500 feet | 2017 | |
 | Johnston Library | 1.0 miles | 1976 |
 | Baxter Springs Independent Oil and Gas Service Station | 1.1 miles | 2003 |
 | Rial A. Niles House | 1.3 miles | 2006 |
| Baxter Springs High School | 1.5 miles | 2014 | |
| Kansas Route 66 Historic District-North Baxter Springs | 2.1 miles | 2017 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000141 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.