Pottawatomie Indian Pay Station

Built in 1855 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Pottawatomie Indian Pay Station is a historic building in St. Marys, Kansas and associated with the Potawatomi tribe.”
Wikipedia article Pottawatomie Indian Pay Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Pottawatomie County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1855, vernacular 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. E of city limits on Mission St., near St. Mary's College campus, St. Mary's, 66536
When was it listed? April 1972
Category. building
Township. St. Marys township
When was it built? 1855
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 72000521 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

37 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Pottawatomie Indian Pay Station between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,664 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	15
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	201546
19 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kansas Forest Service	151
10 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1824
4 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	201525
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	46 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1821
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1820
22 April 2018	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Kansas Forest Service	36
14 April 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	201523

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Verschelden Funeral Home	0.7 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000521 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pottawatomie County	All 14 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.