Nazareth Convent and Academy

Built in 1898 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Nazareth Convent and Academy in Concordia, Kansas is the official Motherhouse and Home for the 160 Sisters of St. It was built in 1903 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Nazareth Convent and Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Cloud County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1898, Romanesque Revival 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. 13th and Washington Sts., Concordia, 66901
When was it listed? January 1973
Category. building
City. Concordia city
When was it built? 1898
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 73000748 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

14 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Nazareth Convent and Academy between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,608 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	5
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2

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
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	10
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	11
30 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	9
19 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	437
7 April 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	7
9 March 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Cloud County	5
8 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	3
5 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	136

Every fire recorded in Cloud County

Storms near this property

60 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concordia, the town this property stands in, in 87 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 44 hail, 34 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 1993	Hail	Concordia	$50,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	$30,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	$15,000	Strong thunderstorm winds ripped shingles off houses and downed trees in a 4 mile path near Concordia.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	$10,000	Near Clyde, a front porch was ripped off of a new construction home. Also half of a tin roof was ripped off, brick and mortar cracked on all four corners of house, and some rafters cracked and split. A 53 foot trailer was blown onto its side with all the contents spilled-out. Windows were blown out of an old house with steel rod posts and pipes sheered off. The barn roof was lifted up and rafters were broken in the metal shed. The ASOS station at Concordia measured a 67 mph wind gust prior to most of the damage occurring.
May 1996	Hail	Concordia	$10,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	$6,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged outbuildings on a farm.
May 1995	Hail	Concordia	$5,000	no account filed
August 1999	Lightning	Concordia	$1,000	Lightning struck the city library in Concordia and ignited a fire which did minor damage.
June 1994	Hail	Concordia	$500	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Concordia	$500	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Concordia	-	Quarter size hail.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Measured on personal weather station.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Six inch healthy tree limbs down.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Structural damage at the fairgrounds, damage to a building off of Highway 81 and two to three inch tree limbs down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Report of large tree limbs down in town.
April 2022	Hail	Concordia	-	Hen egg sized hail reported.
March 2022	Hail	Concordia	-	Quarter sized hail reported.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Measured at mesonet station k5cnc us-81.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Recroded at mesonet station k5cnc us-81.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Large tree limb down, as reported on Facebook. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Tree limb damage with up to 12 inches diameter limbs down.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Personal weather station measured a 58 mph wind gust.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	A tree was reported down. The size was unknown.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Multiple tree limbs were down across the city. Size and health of limbs were not reported. Time was estimated by radar.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Property owner reported numerous 6 inch diameter Oak limbs blown down. Time was estimated by radar.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Trees 18 inches in diameter were snapped and numerous 3-5 inch limbs are down.
June 2015	Flood	Concordia	-	Numerous streets were flooded in town.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Wind gusts measured.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Large tree down in the city of Concordia.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	ASOS in Concordia measured a 61 mph wind gust. A trained spotter also reported 60 mph wind near Clyde.
June 2010	Hail	Concordia	-	Concordia also reported power outages.
June 2009	Hail	Concordia	-	Hail lasted for 5 minutes with the largest stone 1.5 inches in diameter.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Law enforcement officer reported a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	Large branches were blown off of trees in Concordia.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	ASOS measured 60 mph wind at Concordia airport.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Concordia	-	Heavy rain across the town of Concordia lead to flash flooding. Water was reported to be rinning over streets up to the crown of the curb, approximately five inches deep. A trained spotter in Concordia measured 0.75 inches in thirty minutes, and a second reported 2.30 inches in one hour. Other local spotter in the warned area reported a storm total 3.52 inches, and a storm total 4.10 inches.
September 2008	Hail	Concordia	-	Reported penny sized hail.
June 2008	Hail	Concordia	-	Two reports of baseball size hail.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Concordia	-	Water was reported to be flowing over roadways across portions of Cloud County east of Concordia, including near the intersections of 160th and Union, 260th and Milo, and 145th and Teal. Local newspapers reported that portions of north Broadway Street experieced damage as a result of the flood waters. Just over two inches of rain fell in Concordia.
June 2008	Hail	Concordia	-	Trained spotters along the path of this cell reported between penny and quareter size hail.
June 2008	Hail	Concordia	-	Hail from half dollar to golf ball size was reported along the storm's path.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Concordia	-	Heavy rains caused runoff that overflowed highway 28 and caused it to be closed for several hours.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Concordia	-	Several streets in Concordia were flooded and impassable from heavy rains. Highway 9 had water over the roadway in several areas including near Macyville, southwest of Concordia.
May 1999	Flash Flood	Concordia	-	Flooding was reported for a time mostly on roads in the county.
April 2019	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Concordia	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Concordia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cloud 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Brown Grand Opera House	0.5 miles	1973
Bankers Loan and Trust Company Building	0.6 miles	1977
Union Pacific Railroad Depot	0.7 miles	2004
Republican River Pegram Truss	5.3 miles	1990
County Line Bowstring	7.8 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000748 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cloud County	All 10 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.