Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Diamond Spring is a natural spring in western Morris County, Kansas, which served as a stopping point on the Santa Fe Trail. A hunter named Old Ben Jones found the spring during the U.S. government's survey of the trail route in 1825.”
Wikipedia article Diamond Spring (Wilsey, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Morris County · listed in 1976 · category: Site.
National Register reference number. 76000835 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2017
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Diamond Spring
between 2017 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Fireworks
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 National Weather Service names
Wilsey, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 31 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
The tornado touched down 4 miles south of Wilsey and moved north for 6 miles, dissipating 2 miles northwest of Wilsey. A trained spotter reported debris with the tornado as it passed near his house just northwest of Wilsey, however no damage was reported from the F0 tornado. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell.
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
2 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.
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.
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