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Battle of Mine Creek Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site, located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of Pleasanton in eastern Kansas, United States, commemorates the Battle of Mine Creek in the American Civil War. On October 25, 1864, approximately 2,800 Union troops attacked and defeated about 8,000 Confederates along the banks of Mine Creek.”

Wikipedia article Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Battle of Mine Creek Site between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,213 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service579
4 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service70418
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service573
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service131
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeCRP 6
10 April 2000Arson/incendiarism13 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge10 ACRE
1 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Storms near this property

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasanton, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$50,000A second severe storm downed trees as well as tore a roof off of a mobile home. Woodson County 5 NW Yates Center,15,2245CST,,,0,0,1,0,Hail (1.00)
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000Numerous reports of power lines blown down across town. Tree branches up to 6 inches in diameter were snapped off.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000Power lines and trees were reported down across town.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000A tree was blown into a residence.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000Metal roof blown off business on main Street. Power lines were also downed.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Measured 62 mph wind gust in Pleasanton.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Multiple reports of wires down and power outages in eastern Linn County near Pleasanton.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Multiple reports of downed limbs and wires in the Pleasanton area.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Report of 60 mph winds in Pleasanton.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Social media report of trees and large limbs downed in Pleasanton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Delayed report. Social Media photos of a tree uprooted, falling onto a house. Time estimated from radar.
May 2024HailPleasanton-Quarter sized hail was reported in Pleasanton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Downed wires and power outages near 7th Street.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-A tree was downed in Pleasanton.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph was reported in Pleasanton.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-A tree fell onto a powerline, causing a localized power outage.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Large tree in the roadway.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Several outbuildings were blown down and numerous tree limbs were down in Pleasanton.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Two inch diameter tree limbs broken and a metal outbuilding damaged.
July 2013HailPleasanton-Sheriff's office reported hail up to 2 inches deep, on County Road 500 near Highway 69.
May 2007FloodPleasanton-The Marais Des Cygnes River near Trading Post crested at 30.34 feet, or 5.34 feet above flood stage.
June 2007Flash FloodPleasanton-Water was over Road 700 in three different locations.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Numerous large trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds in Pleasanton and La Cygne.
May 2013HailPleasanton-no account filed
September 2012HailPleasanton-no account filed
June 2008HailPleasanton-no account filed
April 2007HailPleasanton-no account filed
March 2006HailPleasanton-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-no account filed
April 2003HailPleasanton-no account filed
April 2003HailPleasanton-no account filed
August 2003HailPleasanton-no account filed
May 2002HailPleasanton-no account filed
April 2001HailPleasanton-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodPleasanton-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-no account filed
April 1993HailPleasanton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Mine Creek Bridge1.7 miles1983
Linn County Courthouse4.7 miles1974
Old Linn County Jail4.7 miles1978
Prescott School5.1 miles1982
Prescott Rural High School5.1 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000762 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn CountyAll 9 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.