Nicodemus Historic District; Nicodemus National Historic Site
A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1996. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Nicodemus National Historic Site, located in Nicodemus, Kansas, United States, preserves, protects and interprets the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the American Civil War. The town of Nicodemus is symbolic of the pioneer spirit of African Americans who dared to leave the only region they had been familiar with to seek personal freedom and the opportunity to develop their talents and capabilities.”
Wikipedia article Nicodemus National Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Graham County · listed in 1976 · category: District · built in 1996 · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number. 76000820 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Nicodemus Historic District; Nicodemus National Historic Site
in 2015, burning about 6 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
Other causes
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 federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Nicodemus Historic District; Nicodemus National Historic Site: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Nicodemus, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.
Mesonet station KKSBOGUE1 measured a 65 mph wind gust as the outflow from a nearby storm moved across eastern Graham County followed by a gust of 59 MPH a few minutes later.
Around sunrise campers at Antelope Lake reported flood waters up to the steps of their camper, almost covering the tires. Estimated the water to be at least a foot deep. Roads in southern Norton County, where similar amounts of rain fell, were reported to still covered in water by mid afternoon. Using this report as a proxy, roads in northern Graham County were likely to still be covered by flood waters for a similar period of time. No information was given for estimates of property damage.
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.
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.
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