Photograph of Shawnee Methodist Mission — Photograph by Lester Jones, Photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Shawnee Mission

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1845 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Shawnee Methodist Mission, also known as the Shawnee Mission, which later became the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, is located in Fairway, Kansas, United States. Designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1968, the Shawnee Methodist Mission is operated by the city as a museum.”
Wikipedia article Shawnee Methodist Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · built in 1845, Federal architecture · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 53rd St. at Mission Rd., Fairway, 66205
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
City. Fairway city
When was it built? 1845
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 66000345 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

167 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Shawnee Mission between 2007 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94
Debris and open burning	16
Smoking	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Fireworks	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	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
9 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2520092
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyandotte County	23456
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2680121

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Shawnee Mission: 38 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Doyle Rock Company Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Clark Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Coyter Brothers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Doarn Quarry and Brick Yard	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Elmer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Feebeck Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Grady Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Holmes Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Inman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kirn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairway, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
May 2024	Hail	Fairway	-	Quarter size hail was reported near Steele Road between Interstate 635 and US Highway 69.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairway	-	Broadcast Media reported several trees down in Mission, KS.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairway	-	A member of the public reported 60 to 70 mph winds.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Fairway	-	KHP shut down I-35 southbound at 18th St due to flooding.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairway	-	Clark Drive was reported blocked by downed trees. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairway	-	A large tree was reported down.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Fairway	-	Several roads were reported to have running water on them.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairway	-	Several trees, some as large as 18 inches in diameter, were downed in Fairway.
July 2017	Hail	Fairway	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Fairway	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Fairway	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Fairway	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Fairway	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Fairway	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Fairway	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wolcott House	0.9 miles	2001
Westwood Hills Historic District	0.9 miles	2013
Horn-Vincent-Russell Estate	1.6 miles	1997
Broadmoor Ranch House Historic District	2.9 miles	2011
Loomis Historic District	3.1 miles	2006
Harmon Park Swale	3.2 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000345 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 34 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.