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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Mitchell County · listed in 1986 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wisconsin Street Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 14 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 700 blk. of Wisconsin St., Cawker City, 67430
- When was it listed? June 1986
- Category. district
- Township. Cawker township
- National Register reference number. 86001324 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
5 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wisconsin Street Historic District between 2015 and 2018, burning about 53 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 | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180010 |
| 23 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3232015 |
| 18 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 160002 |
| 18 October 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150034 |
| 30 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Mitchell County | 170004 |
Storms near this property
50 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cawker City, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 25 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 2 flood. 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 | Cawker City | $500,000 | Extremely strong thunderstorm winds caused major tree and structural damage throughout the town. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $75,000 | An estimated wind gust of 75 mph dropped tree limbs throughout Cawker City, which resulted in a lengthy power outage in the area. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Cawker City | $75,000 | Thunderstorms rumbled across northern Kansas and dumped several inches of rain across Mitchell County. This caused several rural roads and area creeks and streams to flood. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Cawker City | $70,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Flood | Cawker City | $50,000 | Runoff from heavy rainfall in excess of 4 inches in Smith and Jewell Counties resulted in flooding along the Solomon River near and downstream of Beloit. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Cawker City | $25,000 | Hail up to ping pong ball size was reported. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Flood | Cawker City | $15,000 | As a result of rainfall totals as high as 3 to 5 inches reported in the area, flooding occurred across northwestern portions of the county. A few county roads were reported covered in water and closed, with some road closures lasted well into the day on the 25th. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Cawker City | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $10,000 | Power lines were downed just east of Cawker City. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cawker City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cawker City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $8,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH caused roof damage to a mobile home. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $6,000 | Wind gusts estimated near 60 mph knocked over a 12 inch diameter tree onto a house. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $5,000 | A 75 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 1 mile northwest of Cawker City. Tree limbs were downed at Glen Elder State Park. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $5,000 | Several tree limbs were blown down in and near Cawker City, some with a diameter of 6 to 8 inches, from wind gusts estimated to be near 60 mph. A few of the tree limbs downed power lines, causing power outages. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $5,000 | Minor tree limb damage was reported. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Cawker City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | $1,000 | A large tree was blown down. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | - | A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by mesonet station located two miles north of Cawker City. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles north of Cawker City. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Cawker City | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 3.87 inches was recorded at Cawker City, with 3.56 inches recorded 10 miles south-southwest of Beloit. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Cawker City | - | A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.10 inches was reported, with the brunt of the rain falling between 5 PM CDT on the 1st and 4 AM CDT on the 2nd. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | - | Mitchell County dispatch relayed this report. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Cawker City | - | CoCoRaHS observers reported 24-hour total rainfall of 6.15 inches six miles northwest of Barnard, and 5.61 ten miles south-southwest of Beloit. Also, a 24 hour total of 3.45 was reported by the NWS cooperative observer in Cawker City. These amounts occurred from multiple rounds of heavy rain. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Cawker City | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.31 inches was reported. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Cawker City | - | Thunderstorms dropped large hail, up to the size of baseballs, which flattened wheat fields. Hail covered the ground at Tipton and accumulated in drifts near Osborne. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cawker City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Old Cawker City Library | under 500 feet | 1973 |
 | E. W. Norris Service Station | 6.8 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86001324 in Record Group 79. |
| Mitchell County | All 13 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.