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One of 108 National Register listings published here for Shawnee County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sage Inn
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.
- Address. 57th St. and Douglas Rd., Dover, 66610
- When was it listed? October 1976
- Category. building
- Township. Dover township
- National Register reference number. 76000840 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
27 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Sage Inn between 2002 and 2020, burning about 342 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 120 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 273 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 131 |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 24 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 185 |
| 24 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 83 |
| 2 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Kansas State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 30 |
Storms near this property
48 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 27 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $500,000 | Winds clocked at 90 mph produced damage to trees, power lines and some buildings. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Dover | $10,000 | Intense rains brought fast flowing water across area streets with some waters 10 to 20 feet deep. Some families evacuated due to high water. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | $400 | Strong winds blew down tree limbs and damaged guttering on a house. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Dover | - | Survey revealed a small brief tornado in this location. Tree limb damage was noted to live oaks and white pines. Radar data did also show a small debris signature (CC minimum) in this location with the velocity rotation signature. There was no access to the east. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Estimated 60 mph gust near Dover. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Estimated 70 mph wind gust. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Reported at 29th and Glick Road. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | Gustnado reported southwest of 29th and Glick Road. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Dover | - | Half dollar sized hail reported. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Dover | - | Per social media post showing 2 inch hailstones. |
| April 2016 | Flood | Dover | - | Water rescue ongoing from flooding on Mission Creek near K-4. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Dover | - | Flash flooding over road at 3300 SW Carlson Road. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Dover | - | Portions of Carlson RD closed due to flooding near 11000 block, near K-4 and south of Interstate-70. |
| September 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Dover | - | The public reported a thin landspout 3 miles southeast of Dover, Kansas. It made intermittent ground contact for about a minute. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dover | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Dover | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Dover | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacksmith Creek Bridge | 5.7 miles | 1983 | |
| Union Church Building | 7.7 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76000840 in Record Group 79. |
| Shawnee County | All 108 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.