BlockFrom the record
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Dickinson County · listed in 2015 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Smoky Hill Trail and Butterfield Overland Despatch Segment
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- Address. 522 Golf Course Rd., Chapman, 67431
- When was it listed? July 2015
- Category. site
- Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
- Township. Noble township
- National Register reference number. 15000381 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
32 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Smoky Hill Trail and Butterfield Overland Despatch Segment between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,314 acres in total. None 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 | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 14802 |
| 4 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 7 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 6632 |
| 3 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7240 |
| 15 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Smoky Hill Trail and Butterfield Overland Despatch Segment: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas Falls Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
36 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chapman, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 1995 | Hail | Chapman | $750,000 | Large hail driven by high winds caused widespread roof, window and vehicle damage in and around the area. At the three Chapman schools, nearly 100 windows and 10 skylights were knocked out. In addition, widespread roof damage occurred at the schools and other buildings around the town. School was cancelled for at least one day. Many county rural roads were under water and closed from heavy rains. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | $5 | High winds accompanied by large hail knocked down power lines. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Chapman | - | Half dollar size hail south side of Chapman. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Chapman | - | Quarter size hail east side of Chapman. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Time estimated radar. Four inch diameter down across road. This is a delayed report. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Large tree limb down. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Chapman | - | Two to 3 inches of water flowing over the Chapman exit on Interstate 70. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Chapman | - | Picture of road flooded at 6th and Marshall Ave in Chapman. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Chapman | - | Via social media of a washed out dirt road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Tree limb two inches in diameter blown down. Winds estimated between 55 and 60 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Large tree uprooted. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Large tree blown over in city park. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Chapman | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Chapman | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported from mping. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Chapman | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Wind estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Multiple 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Tree limbs 3 to 6 inches is diameter snapped or torn off healthy trees. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Chapman | - | Nickel size hail reported by trained spotter. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EFU) | Chapman | - | Tornado formed around 1-2 miles northeast of Chapman and tracked into Geary County. Formed near interstate 70 northeast of Chapman based on spotter reports. No damage reports have been received from the track in Dickinson and Geary Counties. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Shingles were torn off of a hours along with 8-10 inch diameter limbs blown down. A tin roof was also torn off a shed. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | A tree was reported down. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | A tree fell on a car. Time was estimated by radar. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | Law enforcement reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Chapman | - | The tornado was reported by law enforcement 8 miles south of Chapman and moved north for approximately 1.5 miles before dissipating 6.5 miles south of Chapman. No damage was reported with this F0 tornado. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Chapman | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Chapman | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Chapman Creek Pratt Truss Bridge | 2.7 miles | 2003 |
 | Freeman-Zumbrunn House | 4.4 miles | 2002 |
 | J.S. Hollinger Farmstead | 6.0 miles | 2010 |
 | Hoffman and Lamb Buildings | 6.3 miles | 2017 |
 | Wilson Pratt Truss Bridge | 6.5 miles | 2009 |
 | Prospect Park Farm | 6.7 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000381 in Record Group 79. |
| Dickinson County | All 48 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.