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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Blue Rapids Library
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. E side of public square, Blue Rapids, 66411
- When was it listed? March 1972
- Category. building
- Township. Blue Rapids City township
- Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 72000514 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Blue Rapids Library between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2,360 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018015 |
| 9 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 3 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Marshall County | 2017009 |
| 16 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 11 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015017 |
| 24 February 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,288 acres | Marshall County | not named |
| 17 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016006 |
| 17 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016007 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Blue Rapids Library: 2 producers. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Rapids Mine & Mill | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Blue Rapids Mine & Mill | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer |
Storms near this property
22 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Rapids, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | $5,000 | High winds knocked down trees and caused power outages with minor roof damage to some buildings. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | $5,000 | High winds caused damage to homes, uprooted trees and knocked out electricity in Blue Rapids. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | $2,000 | Strong winds blew down a 15 inch diameter tree limb which did minor damage to a pick-up truck parked nearby. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | - | Telephone pole blown down. Pea size hail also reported. |
| September 2007 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | Two to four inch tree limbs also blown down. |
| April 2004 | Flash Flood | Blue Rapids | - | Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in a short time and the runoff produced flash flooding. Water was reported running across some yards, driveways, and pastures. In Home City water was reported running in the streets for a time. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | - | Strong winds blew down a large tree onto highway 77. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Blue Rapids | - | no account filed |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Samuel Powell House | 4.3 miles | 1972 |
 | Alcove Springs | 4.7 miles | 1972 |
 | Waterville Opera House | 4.8 miles | 2008 |
 | Weaver Hotel | 4.8 miles | 1975 |
 | Alcove Spring (Boundary Increase) | 5.1 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 72000514 in Record Group 79. |
| Marshall County | All 22 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.