Photograph of Irvin Hall — Photograph by Douglas McCleery, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Irvin Hall, Highland Community Junior College

Built in 1859 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Irvin Hall was the first permanent building at Highland University in Highland, Kansas. It is the oldest building in Kansas still used for higher education.”
Wikipedia article Irvin Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Doniphan County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · built in 1859, Federal architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Highland Community Junior College campus, Highland, 66035
When was it listed? February 1971
Category. building
Township. Iowa township
When was it built? 1859
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 71000307 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Irvin Hall, Highland Community Junior College between 2015 and 2018, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	4
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
19 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	9
11 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	22
7 March 2015	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	10
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	11
15 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	6
3 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Doniphan County	4
28 February 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	9
20 February 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	6

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this property

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	$10,000	Powerlines blown down. Large tree toppled on house.
April 1995	Hail	Highland	$35	A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball- to baseball-size hail from Highland to just north of Denton. An apparant tornado formed two miles north of Denton and tracked east for 12 miles to near Wathena. Damage was intermittant along the narrow path, which averaged about 100-yards in width. Roofs were blown off of several barns and outbuildings. (F0)
April 1995	Hail	Highland	$10	A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball- to baseball-size hail from Highland to just north of Denton. An apparant tornado formed two miles north of Denton and tracked east for 12 miles to near Wathena. Damage was intermittant along the narrow path, which averaged about 100-yards in width. Roofs were blown off of several barns and outbuildings. (F0)
April 2023	Hail	Highland	-	Half dollar sized hail was reported in Highland.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	A large pine tree around 12 inches in diameter was uprooted near Highland.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	Public reported a large tree down across a road in town.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	An emergency manager reported 70 mph winds near Highland.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	A large tree was reported down in Highland. The report was acquired via social media.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Highland	-	Heavy rains closed the intersection at U36 and County Road 120.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	Trees reported down.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	Law enforcement reported wind gusts to 66 mph.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	Storm spotters estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	Highland City Hall reported large tree limbs blown down in Highland as a result of severe thunderstorm winds.
August 2019	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	no account filed
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Highland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
First National Bank Building	under 500 feet	2008
Highland Presbyterian Church	under 500 feet	2007
Abram M. Minier House	under 500 feet	2014
Highland Water Tower	0.2 miles
A.L. Wynkoop House	0.2 miles	2007
Highland Christian Church	0.3 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000307 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Doniphan County	All 35 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.