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One of 28 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1976 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lost Springs
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 sitess, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2.5 mi. W of Lost Springs, Lost Springs, 67475
- When was it listed? September 1976
- Category. site
- Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
- Township. Lost Springs township
- National Register reference number. 76000826 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lost Springs between 2002 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 25 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 2 May 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 12 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 12 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Dickinson County | not named |
| 24 March 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 16 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76000826 in Record Group 79. |
| Marion County | All 28 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.