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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Barrett Schoolhouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4 mi. SW of Frankfort on KS 99, Frankfort, 66427
- When was it listed? March 1973
- Category. building
- Township. Vermillion township
- National Register reference number. 73000766 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
19 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Barrett Schoolhouse between 2015 and 2020, burning about 654 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2015 | Natural | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15016 |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 31 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800006 |
| 29 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 21 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
41 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 23 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Tree damage and power lines down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Three inch limbs broken and power poles broken. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Tree limbs 2 to 3 inches in diameter down, stop sign also blown over. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Public report of wind gust to around 68 mph. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Numerous trees limbs down in the city of Frankfort, but sizes were unknown. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Large tree branches broken, up to 3 inches in diameter. Time estimated from radar. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | A machine shed was destroyed. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Wind flipped a carport. Blew it into trees and held it in the trees. Estimated 75-80 mph. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Widespread wind damage reported throughout the town. Power lines and poles down. Roof of city hall blown off. Windows throughout the town were broken by hail or wind. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | A delayed report. |
| October 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Large diameter tree branches were down near Frankfort. The spotter in Frankfort reported 60 to 70 mph winds with the storm. |
| November 2008 | Hail | Frankfort | - | Quarter sized hail fell and winds of at least 50 mph were reported. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Frankfort | - | Hwy 87 was closed between Hwy 36 and the town of Frankfort due to water over the roadway. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Frankfort | - | Water reported to be over several streets in town. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Frankfort | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Old Frankfort City Jail | 3.0 miles | 1982 |
 | Frankfort School | 3.2 miles | 1972 |
 | Robidoux Creek Pratt Truss Bridge | 4.1 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73000766 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.
- 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.