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Photograph of Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“The Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site was the location in present-day Kansas of the signing of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in October 1867 by the United States government with major Western Native American tribes of the region. The treaty, whose peace lasted less than one year, was the first in which the United States formally adopted the policy of attempting to acculturate Native Americans to European ways.”

Wikipedia article Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Barber County · listed in 1969 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. SE of Medicine Lodge, Medicine Lodge, 67104
  • When was it listed? August 1969
  • Category. site
  • Township. Medicine Lodge township
  • National Register reference number. 69000059 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2,420 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined420 acresBarber CountyPIKE FIRE
27 March 2017Smokingunder an acreBarber County6
17 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service8
14 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresBarber Countynot named

Every fire recorded in Barber County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Medicine Lodge PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Barber County

Storms near this property

60 of 148 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medicine Lodge, the town this property stands in, in 148 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 104 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge$500,000Rear Flank Downdraft caused extensive damage to roofs, trees, power lines and sheds.
May 2019LightningMedicine Lodge$100,000A home was struck by lightning causing a fire. The resident received smoke inhalation was expired so this is an indirect death.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge$15,000Numerous trees were uprooted.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge$5,000Large tree toppled by the high wind.
April 2025HailMedicine Lodge-Picture of golf ball size hail sent via social media.
June 2025Heavy RainMedicine Lodge-A cocorahs report indicated 2.60 inches of rain fell.
June 2024Heavy RainMedicine Lodge-Rainfall report of 3.35 inches.
October 2024HailMedicine Lodge-Hail with diameters ranging from quarter size to golf ball size was reported by law enforcement.
August 2024HailMedicine Lodge-Hail the size of quarters was reported by the public.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-Half dollar sized hail was also observed with the wind.
May 2019Flash FloodMedicine Lodge-Street flooding.
October 2018Flash FloodMedicine Lodge-Several roads, including the city park, were under water from flooding.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Medicine Lodge-There may have been some minor tree damage but was unable to locate due to road options.
September 2017FloodMedicine Lodge-Water was reported over a few of the roads.
September 2017FloodMedicine Lodge-There was significant street flooding.
April 2013HailMedicine Lodge-Hail up to the size of nickels covered the ground.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-Four inch tree limbs broken
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-Trees down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-Severe trees blown down.
September 2000HailMedicine Lodge-Lasted five minutes.
May 2024HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2024HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
April 2021HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2017HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
August 2017HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
October 2017Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2016HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2016HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2016HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2010HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
April 2009HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2008HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2008HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
July 2008HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
October 2007HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
April 2006HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2006HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2006HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMedicine Lodge-no account filed
April 2005HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2005HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2005HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2005HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed
June 2005HailMedicine Lodge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barber 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Carry A. Nation House1.7 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 69000059 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barber CountyAll 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.
  • 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.