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One of 12 National Register listings published here for Ellsworth County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Harker Officers' Quarters
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Ohio St. between Kansas and Colorado Sts., Kanopolis, 67454
- When was it listed? November 1974
- Category. building
- Township. Ellsworth township
- National Register reference number. 74000834 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
13 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fort Harker Officers' Quarters between 2015 and 2020, burning about 137 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 78 |
| 12 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 74 |
| 8 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 23 |
| 25 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 38 |
| 23 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ellsworth County | 2017009 |
| 22 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ellsworth County | 2017008 |
| 22 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 37 |
| 21 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Harker Officers' Quarters: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bates Sand Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 66 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kanopolis, the town this property stands in, in 66 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 48 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Hail | Kanopolis | $170,000 | Two inch hail blasted the sides of houses across Kanopolis. The north side of the Community Centers siding was blasted by the hail. Skylights and windows were also broken across town. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kanopolis | $7,000 | Golfball sized hail broke windows, damaged a car and other property at a homestead. The large hail lasted for 5 minutes. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Kanopolis | $5,000 | The hail covered the ground with numerous reports of broken glass. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | $5,000 | The winds gusted to 50 to 60 mph. Some small tree limbs were knocked down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | $500 | One to 1.5 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| October 2018 | Flood | Kanopolis | $100 | Water was reported over highway 140 east of Ellsworth. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | Reported a semi blown over at Mile Marker 222 on I-70 from thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | Public reported via social media of a home with part of the roof blown off five miles northeast of Ellsworth KS. Tree limbs were reported down in Ellsworth KS. Time was estimated by radar. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | Trained spotter reported an estimated wind gust of 70 mph with 0.85 inches of rain in 15 minutes. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | Measured wind gust from a trained spotter. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | The ground was about 50 percent covered with hail. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | According to a report via social media, sections of an outbuilding roof were blown off. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Kanopolis | - | Rain fall total 24 hours of 1. 42 inches. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Kanopolis | - | A cocorahs observer in Kanopolis reported 3.90 inches in 24 hours. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | Also reported 1.3 inches of rain and 40 mph winds. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | No damage was reported. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | There were no reports of damage. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | There were no reports of damage. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | Winds were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | A machine shed was damaged with the roof taken completely off and two walls also collapsed. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | Pea to half inch sized hail was also reported. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | The spotter's yard was covered with ping-pong to golfball-sized hail. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | CO-OP observer. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Kanopolis | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanopolis | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fort Harker Guardhouse | 0.1 miles | 1972 |
| Lloyd, Ira E, Stock Farm | 3.3 miles | 2015 | |
 | Ellsworth Downtown Historic District | 4.1 miles | 2007 |
 | Insurance Building | 4.1 miles | 2006 |
 | Perry Hodgden House | 4.2 miles | 1973 |
 | Arthur Larkin House | 4.3 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74000834 in Record Group 79. |
| Ellsworth County | All 12 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.