George Grant Villa

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The George Grant Villa is a building outside of Victoria, Kansas which was the home of George Grant, who founded the town. It was built in 1873 as part of his English colonization project there.”
Wikipedia article George Grant Villa, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Ellis County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

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.
Listed as. Grant, George, Villa - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5 mi. S and 2 mi. E of Victoria on secondary rds., Victoria, 67640
When was it listed? April 1972
Category. building
Township. Herzog township
Architect. Robert William Edis
National Register reference number. 72000496 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of George Grant Villa between 2015 and 2019, burning about 4,550 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	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	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
27 August 2017	Natural	5.0 acres	Russell County	27
26 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ellis County	017-241
22 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Russell County	19
13 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Kansas Forest Service	15-0094
8 March 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ellis County	017-069
11 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	160005
10 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ellis County	017-073
14 February 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this property

60 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victoria, the town this property stands in, in 79 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 41 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 4 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
July 1994	Hail	Victoria	$5,000	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$2,500	Five power poles were blown down by the high wind.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$2,000	Power poles blown down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$750	A power pole was blown down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Report from Mping.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	One inch diameter tree limbs were broken by the high wind.
May 2021	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Rainfall of 4.40 inches was observed.
March 2021	Flood	Victoria	-	There was low lying flooding near Big Creek.
September 2021	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Rainfall of 2.05 inches was observed.
September 2021	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Rainfall of 2.24 inches was observed.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Unspecified wind damage was reported (from MPing).
August 2019	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Rainfall of 2.17 inches was observed.
August 2019	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Rainfall of 2.89 inches was observed.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Water was over several county roads.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Winds were estimated to be between 60 and 70 MPH.
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Four inches of rain fell with minor flooding problems were reported. There was widespread three to five inch reports received all across east central Ellis county, including the Walker area.
June 2005	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	This 3.40" of rain fell in 3 hours.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
May 2004	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Five and one half inches of rain fell in 3 hours.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Six inch diameter tree branches broken. Fences blown down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	A few small trees were uprooted.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Many "large" tree limbs were blown down.
June 2002	Hail	Victoria	-	Hail covered the ground.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Water over the road on old highway 40.
September 2001	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Water was flowing over highway 40.
August 2001	Hail	Victoria	-	Lasted 5 minutes.
September 2001	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Water was reported flowing over highway 40.
March 2024	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
May 2021	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
May 2021	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	no account filed
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	no account filed
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
May 2011	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Victoria	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000496 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ellis County	All 21 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.