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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Pottawatomie County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Vermillion Creek Crossing, Oregon Trail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The listing
- Address. NW of Belvue, Belvue, 66547
- When was it listed? March 1975
- Category. site
- Township. Louisville township
- National Register reference number. 75000720 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
26 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Vermillion Creek Crossing, Oregon Trail between 2015 and 2018, burning about 950 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Pottawatomie County | 2017014 |
| 6 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 28 |
| 29 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015060 |
| 11 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 51 |
| 10 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 47 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 42 |
| 1 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 43 |
| 8 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
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 Vermillion Creek Crossing, Oregon Trail: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wamego Sand Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
36 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belvue, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | $60,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | $20,000 | Strong winds downed power poles near Belvue. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were downed near Belvue. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Reports of power poles down across railroad tracks, limbs down, and power lines down across Belvue. |
| April 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Belvue | - | What appeared to begin as a gustnado became connected to the storm updraft at least briefly along the leading edge of a thunderstorm as it moved through the small town of Belvue. The small vortex moved ENE for a few miles doing minor damage to trees and outbuildings before dissipating as strong outflow winds overwhelmed it. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Belvue | - | Report from Twitter. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Personal weather station measured gust. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Belvue | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Wind gust of 86 mph measured on a mobile mesonet along US highway 24. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Partial rooftop damage to a residential home, possibly associated with a tornado. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Trained spotter measured the wind gust. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | Tree limbs up to 4.5 inches in diameter down. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Belvue | - | Two vehicles were washed off the road on Oregon Trail Road 3 miles northwest of St. Mary's. Onaga Road closed due to flood waters about 18 inches deep flowing over the road 6 to 7 miles north of Belvue and 4 miles south of Onaga. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Belvue | - | Water flowed across US Highway 24, west of St. Mary's, near mile marker 343. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Belvue | - | Dime to nickel size hail. |
| July 2001 | Flood | Belvue | - | Four inches of rain in a short period caused water to overlow U.S. Highway 24 near Belvue for a time. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| October 2005 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belvue | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Belvue | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | George and Virginia Trout House | 4.6 miles | 2014 |
 | Cassius and Adelia Baker House | 4.7 miles | 2013 |
 | Old Dutch Mill | 4.7 miles | 1973 |
| Genn Hospital | 4.9 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75000720 in Record Group 79. |
| Pottawatomie County | All 14 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.