Martin Cemetery

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Stafford County · listed in 2015 · category: Site · built in 1914.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 50, 1/4 mi. W. of US 281, St. John, 67576
When was it listed? October 2015
Category. site
Township. Ohio township
When was it built? 1914
National Register reference number. 15000692 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

32 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Martin Cemetery between 2007 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Smoking	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
22 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
14 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	80
9 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	72
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	71
5 August 2017	Natural	3.0 acres	Stafford County	73
11 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	67
4 July 2015	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	421
4 July 2015	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	422

Every fire recorded in Stafford County

Storms near this property

60 of 137 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names St. John, the town this property stands in, in 137 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 95 hail, 29 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 4 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	1 hurt, $300,000	One trailer home was completely destroyed and the occupant received minor cuts and bruises, but lucky to be alive according to the Emergency Manager. Trees were down all over the place and several roofs received quite a bit of damage. Several pivot sprinklers overturned or damaged and a patrol car window pushed out. The same patrol car was blown into a ditch, after sitting idle with the driver pressing on the brake, powerless to the high wind.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	$75,000	The winds blew a pivot irrigation sprinkler into a ditch.
May 2008	Flood	St John	$15,000	One house in town was flooded and two more had water up their porches.
May 1995	Tornado (F1)	St. John	$10,000	no account filed
August 2024	Hail	St John	-	Hail the size of quarters was reported by the Public.
June 2024	Flash Flood	St John	-	Road closed with water over road.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Report form Mping.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Sections of a roof were blown off a 50 x 150 foot pole barn and deposited 1 to 2 blocks north of the building.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	There was some tree damage and power lines were blown down.
July 2010	Flood	St John	-	Street flooding was reported in St John.
July 2010	Heavy Rain	St John	-	Rainfall of 3.00 inches reported and some streets were covered by water.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	St John	-	This tornado was observed by a storm chaser. He noted power lines down as the tornado cross the road 4 miles north of Hudson.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Numerous trees were reported to be blown down. There was also some unspecified damage to a house.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Trees were uprooted.
May 2005	Heavy Rain	St John	-	Four and quarter inches of rain fell since 2 pm CST.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Five inch tree limbs were blown down.
April 2001	Hail	St John	-	lasted 10 minutes
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	St John	-	No damage since there was nothing to hit!
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Three inch diameter limbs blown down.
March 2000	Tornado (F0)	St John	-	Greenhouse damaged and moved cattle corrals.
October 2000	Tornado (F0)	St John	-	Brief tornado was witnessed by many law enforcement and EMS personnel.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	Two and three inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 1999	Heavy Rain	St John	-	Rainfall of 2.00" in 15 minutes.
August 1997	Hail	St John	-	Hail covered the ground.
May 1993	Tornado (F0)	St. John	-	Tornado touched down in open farmland.
May 2023	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	St John	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	St John	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	St John	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stafford 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
	William R. Gray Photography Studio and Residence	3.1 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000692 in Record Group 79.
Stafford County	All 8 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.