Marysville Pony Express Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 108 S. 8th St., Marysville, 66508
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
City. Marysville city
National Register reference number. 73000767 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Marysville Pony Express Barn between 2016 and 2020, burning about 95 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	19
3 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
25 February 2016	Smoking	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	12
20 February 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	10
18 February 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	7
14 February 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	5

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

60 of 92 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marysville, the town this property stands in, in 92 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 53 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$82,000	no account filed
April 1999	Tornado (F0)	Marysville	$60,000	A small tornado moved north from near Marysville to near Oketo damaging several farm homes and out buildings.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Marysville	$50,000	Few roads closed due to flash flooding with 4 to 6 inches of rain. K-87 also closed with some culvert damage on rural roads.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$30,000	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$5,000	A large machine shed and combine were destroyed near Marysville.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$4,000	Four large trees were blown down near Marysville.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$3,000	Around a dozen trees were damaged on the west side of town. Trees were 2 to 3 feet in diameter with 8 to 10 in limbs blocking roadways.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a hog shed and several feeders.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$2,000	A roof was blown off a trailer.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$1,000	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	$500	Wind driven hail caused some paint to chip off the side of one house near Marysville.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Estimated 60 mph winds in Marysville.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Power lines and tree damage in Marysville. Time estimated from radar.
May 2023	Hail	Marysville	-	Half dollar sized hail reported.
May 2023	Hail	Marysville	-	Hen egg sized hail reported via spotter network.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Debris and several trees down along North Street in Marysville, likely associated with a tornado.
September 2022	Hail	Marysville	-	Quarter sized hail reported.
May 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Marysville	-	Photos submitted show damage along a nearly 10 mile long track from just southwest of Marysville through parts of the city then into rural Marshall county. Damage indicators and degree of damage suggest EF1 intensity with winds to around 105 mph.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Marysville	-	One road was closed outside of Marysville due to flash-flooding. Numerous social media posts revealed flooded streets within the city of Marysville.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Marysville	-	Water was flowing over numerous roads in Marysville.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	A large tree limb was down.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Power flashes reported. Power was out.
April 2016	Hail	Marysville	-	Photo evidence of 2.5 inch diameter hail south of Marysville.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Marysville	-	Reports of 6 inches of water running across some streets in town.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Two large trees and numerous small limbs down. Minor power outages. Delayed report. Time estimated from radar.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	A tree was reported down near 14th Street and Spring Road in Marysville.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Three inch tree branches down and power outages reported throughout Marshall County.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	An emergency manager reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust near Marysville.
June 2009	Hail	Marysville	-	A delayed report from a spotter of golf ball size hail was received.
June 2009	Hail	Marysville	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail with no damage.
June 2008	Hail	Marysville	-	Several reports of quarter size hail.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Trees were damaged east of Marysville. Several outbuildings were damaged to the north of Home, and at one farmstead two grain bins were destroyed, as were two sheds. Some farm equipment was also damaged.
October 2007	Hail	Marysville	-	Nickel to quarter sized hail reported to have fallen.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Power pole reported down along N. 11th St.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Power pole reported down near the intersection of 17th and Hwy 36.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Police Officer measured a 63mph wind gust on his stationary radar.
August 2007	Hail	Marysville	-	Golfball sized hail in the town of Bremen.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Marysville	-	Water approximately 4 inches deep reported to be flowing across 12th Street in the town of Marysville.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marysville	-	Several 1000 gallon storage tanks and stock tanks were blown across a road from a farm supply company. Several fir trees were blown over at a golf course.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Marysville	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding with water flowing over roads near Marysville.
April 2016	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
November 2008	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Marysville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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

6 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
Pusch-Randell House	under 500 feet	1986
Post Office Block	under 500 feet	1980
Charles Koester House	0.1 miles	1975
Marysville High School-Junior High School Complex	0.2 miles	2013
Marysville Union Pacific Depot	0.2 miles	2016
Marshall County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000767 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.