Built in 1885 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“The Old Cawker City Library at 7th and Lake Sts. in Cawker City, Kansas, United States, was built in 1885. It is a public library which also serves as the headquarters of the North Central Kansas Genealogical Society.”
Wikipedia article Old Cawker City Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Mitchell County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1885, Victorian architecture.
National Register reference number. 73000770 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
5 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Old Cawker City Library
between 2015 and 2018, burning about 53 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cawker City, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 25 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 2 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.
Thunderstorms rumbled across northern Kansas and dumped several inches of rain across Mitchell County. This caused several rural roads and area creeks and streams to flood.
Runoff from heavy rainfall in excess of 4 inches in Smith and Jewell Counties resulted in flooding along the Solomon River near and downstream of Beloit.
As a result of rainfall totals as high as 3 to 5 inches reported in the area, flooding occurred across northwestern portions of the county. A few county roads were reported covered in water and closed, with some road closures lasted well into the day on the 25th.
Several tree limbs were blown down in and near Cawker City, some with a diameter of 6 to 8 inches, from wind gusts estimated to be near 60 mph. A few of the tree limbs downed power lines, causing power outages.
CoCoRaHS observers reported 24-hour total rainfall of 6.15 inches six miles northwest of Barnard, and 5.61 ten miles south-southwest of Beloit. Also, a 24 hour total of 3.45 was reported by the NWS cooperative observer in Cawker City. These amounts occurred from multiple rounds of heavy rain.
Thunderstorms dropped large hail, up to the size of baseballs, which flattened wheat fields. Hail covered the ground at Tipton and accumulated in drifts near Osborne.
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
2 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.
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.
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