Fulton High School and Grade School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 408 W. Osage St., Fulton, 66738
When was it listed? October 2015
Category. building
Also known as. Public Schools of Kansas MPS
Township. Freedom township
National Register reference number. 15000688 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

32 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Fulton High School and Grade School between 2014 and 2020, burning about 2,009 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	10
Smoking	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
25 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	not named
28 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
11 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	624
11 May 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	184
10 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Linn County	168
8 April 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Bourbon County	122
20 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	163
10 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Bourbon County	128

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this property

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulton, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 10 hail, 7 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fulton	$50,000	Severe thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed one barn and damaged a house along Highway 31. Tree damage also occurred in nearby areas.
April 2024	Hail	Fulton	$25,000	Hail to the size of half dollars was reported. Some minor roof damage occurred.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Fulton	$10,000	Heavy rainfall, from training thunderstorms, produced flash flooding near the town of Fulton. The Emergency Manager reported that Yellowstone Road suffered severe damage due to swiftly flowing flood waters. Rainfall estimates from the training storms were around 3 to 4 inches.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fulton	$5,000	Social media report relaying that many trees were snapped halfway, with some being uprooted in Fulton, Kansas.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fulton	$5,000	A large tree fell and damaged a car.
April 2026	Flood	Fulton	-	Kansas Route 31 between Kansas Routes 7 and 69 at Clever Creek was flooded and impassable.
April 2026	Flood	Fulton	-	A water rescue was performed near 225th Street and Xavier Road at the little Osage River. Rescue was completed successfully.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Fulton	-	Highway 31 at Clever Creek was closed and impassable west of Fulton due to flooding.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fulton	-	The Emergency Manager reported that a couple large trees were broken along with penny size hail.
October 2016	Flood	Fulton	-	Kansas Highway K-31 was closed due to flooding along the Little Osage River.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Fulton	-	Flood waters closed and damaged the road surface of 255th Street between Valley and Wagon roads.
March 2009	Flash Flood	Fulton	-	Excessive rainfall caused several roads and low water crossings to become flooded across the county. A couple of specific locations that flooded included the intersection of 165th street and Highway 31, along with the intersection of 185th Street and Highway 31.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Fulton	-	Several areas of Bourbon County flooded as three to four inches of rain fell during the morning hours. A few specific locations that flooded include a section of County Road 195 near its intersection with Highway 31, a section of County Road 165 west of Fulton, a low water crossing near the intersection of County Road 205 and Poplar Road, the intersection of County Road 65 and Yale Road, and the intersection of County Road 85 and Maple.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Fulton	-	Widespread flash flooding occurred across Bourbon County. This flash flooding was mainly confined to low water crossings. However, a section of Highway 69 was closed due to flooding of Wood Creek.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Fulton	-	Heavy rain caused flooding across northern sections of Bourbon County. Numerous low water crossings were impassable to motorists. A local observer in the area had measured 3.40 inches of rain that fell in two hours.
May 2007	Flood	Fulton	-	Persistent rainfall caused areal flooding along the Little Osage River. Numerous roads and low lying areas along the river became inundated and impassable to motorists.
September 2012	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fulton	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Fulton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
	Long Shoals Bridge	5.5 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000688 in Record Group 79.
Bourbon County	All 14 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.