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One of 2 National Register listings published here for Scott County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Herbert and Eliza Steele House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Steele, Herbert and Eliza, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. W. Scott Lake Dr., Scott City, 67871
- When was it listed? June 2016
- Category. building
- Township. Beaver township
- National Register reference number. 16000406 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Herbert and Eliza Steele House in 2017, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Logan County | 17003 |
Storms near this property
60 of 282 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scott City, the town this property stands in, in 282 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 188 hail, 68 thunderstorm wind, 13 heavy rain, 8 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | $1,550,000 | Swath of large hail and high wind across the county produced $1.55 million in damage to property. Extensive damage was also done to crops. In Scott City, a roof was blown off; a camper was blown 30 feet and a shed was blown down. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Scott City | $650,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | $350,000 | Four house with severe roof damage; many windows blown out; many vehicles with windows blown out due to flying debris; 10- by 32-foot building demolished; other smaller ones heavily damaged; mobile home overturned; and two campers damaged. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Scott City | $50,000 | A tornado touched down briefly south of Scott City. A mobile home was pushed 200 yards off its foundation. Two sheriff's patrol cars were blown off the road. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | $30,000 | Tree was uprooted and then fell onto a house. |
| July 1996 | Hail | Scott City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Scott City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | $4,000 | Power poles blown down. Cars into the ditch |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | $600 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | A measured wind gust of 58 mph at the Ellis Feeders observing station. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Scott City | - | An emergency manager reported 1 inch hail. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Scott City | - | A NWS employee reported hail just over 2 inches in size. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Scott City | - | A mPING report of golf ball sized hail. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Scott City | - | A COOP Observer reported hail of 1.75 inches. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Scott City | - | The emergency manager reported hail of 1.75 inches. At the same time, a report of 1 hail was given from the public. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall total of 2.15 inches. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall report of 1.75 inches. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall report of 2.47 inches. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall report of 2.16 inches. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Scott City | - | Hail was measured at 1.5 inches diameter. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Scott City | - | Reported by Emergency Management. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Scott City | - | Report of flooding over the roads in the town of Scott City. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall of 3.30 inches was observed. |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall of 2.40 inches was observed. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | A large tree was blown over on the golf course. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall of 3.72 inches was observed but it was also still raining. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall of 5 to 5 1/2 inches was common across the city. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall of 7.79 inches was measured. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall of 7.35 inches was measured. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall was 3.58 inches. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | The wind occurred just ahead of the thunderstorm. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Scott City | - | There was also 50 to 60 MPH winds with the hail. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Scott City | - | There was a mix of quarter to golf ball sized hail. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Scott City | - | Ditches were full and there was ponding of water on many county roads. Water was over highway 96 and many low water crossings were flooded in the area. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Three inches of rainfall was observed. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Scott City | - | Rainfall of 2.40 inches was observed. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | The winds were estimated. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Scott City | - | The hail was very brief. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Scott City | - | There were also 50 mph winds associated with the hail. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Tree limbs 4 inches in diameter were blown down and a window was broken out. One temporary road sign was blown across highway 83 just south of town. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Scott City | - | This was a brief tornado that made contact for about 30 seconds. |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | A six inch diameter tree was blown down. |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | The wind was measured at the KSNW weatherlab site. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Th wind gust was recorded at the KSN Weatherlab at the Scott City Middle School. |
| February 2007 | Flood | Scott City | - | Snow melt produced widespread flooding across the county. Many roads were covered with water and many county roads were destroyed by the flooding. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Scott City | - | Roads and streets in and around Scott City were flooded. |
| March 2007 | Flood | Scott City | - | A continued problem from February where runoff from snow melt caused extensive flooding in the county. A radio tower with 4 feet of standing water. Water in the building, so sandbagging was done to bring in a generator to run the tower. A few farm houses in the southern part of the county were abandoned due to water in the houses. Many fields in southern part of county with standing water. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Scott City | - | The hail nearly covered the ground and was falling for 15 minutes. |
| May 2006 | Flood | Scott City | - | Minor flooding was reported. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Power lines blown down. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Two to three inch diameter tree branches were broken. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Many five to six inch diameter tree branches were broken. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Four to six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | A 40000 bushel grain bin was destroyed at KC Feeders. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Two pivot irrigation sprinklers were overturned by the high wind. A barn also collapsed. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Several power poles were blown down. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | Four to six inch diameter tree branches were broken. A few shingles were blown off roofs. |
| April 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Scott City | - | This was a multiple vortex tornado that did not strike anything. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scott City | - | KSN weaether lab site at the middle school |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Scott City | - | This tornado briefly had circulation on the ground but was a funnel for about five minutes. There was no damage. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000406 in Record Group 79. |
| Scott County | All 2 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.