Built in 1887 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“The Stockgrowers State Bank, located at 8th and Main Sts. in Ashland, Kansas, was built in 1887. It has also been known as First National Bank, for whom the building was first built, and which operated for about a year.”
Wikipedia article Stockgrowers State Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1887, Romanesque Revival architecture, by Willis Ritchie.
National Register reference number. 72000490 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
9 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stockgrowers State Bank
between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,688 acres in total. 1 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
3
Debris and open burning
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 154 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 113 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 heavy rain.
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.
Tornado touched down briefly and passed through the Roger Giles Farmstead. House windows were broken out, farm machinery was wrecked, and the house was moved on its foundation. All but two outbuildings on the farmstead were damaged.
A severe thunderstorm with one-inch diameter hail and winds greater than 52 knots (60 mph) knocked down large tree branches and produced some roof damage seven miles southwest of Ashland at 1615 CST.
Several large trees were blown down by the high wind. A 7 inch diameter tree limb fell on a police car and caused substantial damage. The entire town of Ashland was without power.
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
4 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.
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.
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