Built in 1867. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“The Old Albany Schoolhouse is a structure in Nemaha County, Kansas that was used as a school from the time of its construction circa 1866-67 to 1963. The school is one of the last remnants of the town of Albany, which declined after a railroad was built closer to the neighboring town of Sabetha.”
Wikipedia article Old Albany Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Nemaha County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1867.
National Register reference number. 72000518 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
13 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Old Albany Schoolhouse
between 2001 and 2020, burning about 370 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
Debris and open burning
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Natural
1
Smoking
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sabetha, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 tornado.
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.
This F1 tornado touched down 7.5 miles south of Sabetha, damaged one farmstead, then moved east-northeast to the Brown county border, roughly 6 miles south of Sabetha, where it damaged a second farmstead. Debris from the first homestead was scattered over a mile northeast. Some of the debris was lodged in treetops in a nearby woods. Other wood debris was driven several feet into the ground. The tornado had a path length of about 2 miles in Nemaha County with a path width of about 100 yards. The tornado then crossed the border into Brown County. The damage in Nemaha county was estimated at $200,000. This tornado formed in a bow echo that produced an otherwise wide swath of wind damage.
High winds tore the metal roof from a large horse barn south of town. Chunks of the flying metal hit a horse in the adjacent corral severing its foot just above the hoof. The horse had to be destroyed. The wind also knocked down power lines and trees.
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
2 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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