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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Marshall County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Z. H. Moore Store
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Moore, Z. H., Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. State and Center Sts., Oketo, 66518
- When was it listed? June 1976
- Category. building
- Township. Oketo township
- National Register reference number. 76000830 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
9 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Z. H. Moore Store between 2015 and 2020, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Marshall County | 99 |
| 8 March 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 77 |
| 29 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 78 |
| 24 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Marshall County | 101 |
| 13 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Marshall County | 100 |
| 20 February 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 90 |
| 3 November 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 96 |
Storms near this property
29 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oketo, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 15 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Oketo | $10,000 | A tornado touched down near Oketo and moved northnortheast 1 mile before dissipating. A mobile home and several buildings were damaged in Oketo. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Oketo | $5,000 | Lightning struck a house and started a fire that did major damage to the structure. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | $2,000 | Two barns and a shed suffered wind damage near Oketo. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | - | Estimated wind gust of 50 to 60 mph. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Oketo | - | Damage survey revealed a garage was destroyed on the south side of state line road with debris thrown north back into Nebraska (across the road). A sporadic damage path moved southeast and ended around highway 77 where power poles were broken along with some tree limb damage. This tornado moved south out of Nebraska and ended in Kansas. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Oketo | - | Delayed report of ping pong size hail. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | - | Report of 60 mph wind gust. No reported damage. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Oketo | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70-75 MPH, possibly 80 MPH. Numerous tree limbs were down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | - | A hard shell of a pickup was pulled off near the state line on Highway 77. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Oketo | - | Creeks and stream are rising again and county roads are covered by water coming out of the fields. Oketo measured 1.5 inches of rain this morning. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | - | Spotter reported 2 to 3 inche sized limbs down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | - | Several 7 to 8 inch tree limbs blew down. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Oketo | - | Tornado determined to have touched down only briefly. A few outbuildings sustained damage. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | - | An eighteen inch diameter tree was uprooted. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oketo | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Oketo | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76000830 in Record Group 79. |
| Marshall County | All 22 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.