Photograph of Baldwin City station — Photograph by Bhall87, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Santa Fe Depot

Built in 1907 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Baldwin City station, nominated as the Santa Fe Depot, is a historic railroad depot building at 1601 High Street in Baldwin City, Kansas. The depot was on the Lawrence to Ottawa line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.”
Wikipedia article Baldwin City station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 118 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1907, Prairie School architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 1601 High St., Baldwin City, 66006
When was it listed? January 1983
Category. building
Township. Palmyra township
When was it built? 1907
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
National Register reference number. 83000424 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

59 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Santa Fe Depot between 2015 and 2020, burning about 305 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Debris and open burning	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	15
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
7 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	41
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	311
10 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	244
5 May 2017	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Franklin County	32
27 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	229
8 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	39
28 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	51
28 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	29

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Tornado (F1)	Baldwin City	$1,000,000	A small tornado formed along the north edge of a strong downburst and moved mainly across open fields. The tornado skipped across the county destroying several farm buildings, a motorhome and farm equipment. However, with widespread straightline wind damage in the area, it was difficult to distinguish between the cause(s) of the damage. The most significant damage occurred along and about one to two miles west of highway 33.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwin City	$20,000	High winds tore down power poles and lines knocking out electricity for several hours.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Case Library	0.7 miles	1986
First Methodist Episcopal Church	0.7 miles	2025
Parmenter Memorial Hall	0.8 miles	1977
Baldwin City School and Auditorium-Gymnasium	0.8 miles	2015
Old Castle Hall, Baker University	0.9 miles	1971
William A. Quayle House	1.1 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000424 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 118 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.