Hill Grade School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 601 E. Main, Marion, 66861
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. building
Township. Centre township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 76000827 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Hill Grade School between 2015 and 2020, burning about 964 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	7
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	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 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	35
6 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	17
4 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
18 March 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Marion County	22
17 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	26
13 March 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	22
12 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Marion County	18
12 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Marion County	19

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

60 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion, the town this property stands in, in 67 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 30 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	2 hurt	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$100,000	Minor damage sustained to boats and docks at Glen Elder Lake Marina, widespread tree damage, power lines downed.
May 2009	Flood	Marion	$50,000	Main street in Marion was flooded for a short time. Numerous county roads were flooded.
May 1999	Tornado (F1)	Marion	$50,000	Initial touchdown occurred over eastern Marion Reservoir at approximately 1535. Moving northeast at 30 kts, the tornado passed near Lincolnville and then just to the east of Lost Springs where it crossed into southwest Morris County. Extensive damage was inflicted upon one home just southeast of Lost Springs where the garage was destroyed and part of roof was lost.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$20,000	A powerful thunderstorm produced widespread tree and some structural damage in and around the town of Marion. In Marion, the roof of a metal building was blown off, causing additional damage to nearby cars and businesses. Also, a roof on a building near the city's water tower was blown off. Information courtesy of the Marion County Record newspaper.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$10,000	Power poles and power lines were blown down.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$7,500	One fourth of a barns roof was blown off.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	$3,000	Tree limbs were reported down in town. Some minor awning damage occurred to a house. Reported via Kake TV on Twitter.
November 2005	Tornado (F0)	Marion	$500	Landspout tornado. Cosmetic damage to outbuildings
June 1994	Hail	Marion	$50	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Marion	-	The report was an image relayed from emergency management. This was a delayed report with the time estimated via radar.
March 2026	Hail	Marion	-	This report was relayed via emergency management.
April 2026	Hail	Marion	-	The report was received via mPing.
April 2026	Hail	Marion	-	The largest hailstone was baseball size, although dime to tennis ball size hailstones fell for 10 minutes.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Picture sent via social media of a couple of 4-inch tree limbs down in Marion.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Emergency manager had a measured wind gust of 59.7 (60 mph) in Marion.
June 2024	Flood	Marion	-	Significant flooding over the roadway both north and south of the intersection of Remington Road and 230th Street.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Emergency manager estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
August 2024	Hail	Marion	-	The report of quarter-sized hail was relayed by emergency management.
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Law enforcement reported a large metal dumpster was moved and flipped onto a road. Winds were estimated to be around 60 to 65 mph at time.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	A trained spotter estimated 50 to 60 mph wind with pea sized hail.
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Marion	-	Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.41 inches.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	There was an estimated six-inch tree branches down at the Marion County Courthouse.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	There was a report of a roof partially blown off at the municipal airport in Marion.
September 2023	Flood	Marion	-	Emergency manager reports street flooding in the city of Marion.
May 2022	Hail	Marion	-	A public report was relayed from the broadcast media.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	This was an estimated wind gust.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Damage occurred to power poles and lines.
April 2020	Hail	Marion	-	Picture sent in via Facebook.
April 2020	Hail	Marion	-	Picture sent in via Twitter.
March 2019	Hail	Marion	-	A picture was submitted via Facebook. The hail was estimated to be barely larger than quarters. The time of the event was estimated based on radar.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	No damage was reported.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	A delayed report was received from an employee with The Marion County Record of wind damage across Marion County. The worst damage occurred across the northern half of Marion County; most of it to trees and power lines. Some of the trees were large but there were no specifics as to their diameters. Most of the town of Marion was reported with no power after the storm.
May 2018	Hail	Marion	-	The public reported nickel to quarter sized hail.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Six to eight in tree limbs were reported down in town. Also some sporadic power outages were noted.
March 2017	Flood	Marion	-	Remington Road was flooded in and around 230th Street.
May 2015	Heavy Rain	Marion	-	Reports of minor street flooding were noted in Marion and other locations across the county. Rain reports around 3 inches were noted in Marion.
July 2013	Flood	Marion	-	Heavy rains caused street flooding.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	A trained spotter estimated the gust.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Marion	-	Widespread flooding across the county with several county roads closed.
November 2005	Tornado (F0)	Marion	-	Brief touchdown.
November 2005	Tornado (F0)	Marion	-	Landspout tornado. Remained over open country.
September 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	Numerous trees and power lines blown down.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Marion	-	MUD CREEK FLOODED OLD HWY 56
April 2026	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
March 2019	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Marion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion County

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 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Donaldson and Hosmer Building	0.2 miles
Marion County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1976
Elgin Hotel	0.3 miles	1978
Bown-Corby School	0.4 miles	2015
Marion County Park and Lake	2.5 miles	2002
Island Field Ranch House	6.9 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000827 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.
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.