William Mills House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Miami County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Mills, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 212 First St., Osawatomie, 66064
When was it listed? November 1986
Category. building
City. Osawatomie city
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 86003291 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

72 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of William Mills House between 2015 and 2020, burning about 323 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
23 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	236
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	235
5 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	181
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	179
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	210
14 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	163
1 May 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	126

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Storms near this property

55 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osawatomie, the town this property stands in, in 55 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 28 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 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
April 2026	Hail	Osawatomie	$50,000	Several social media photos and videos of hail up to tennis ball size in Osawatomie. Multiple homes and vehicles were damaged, with many windows and windshields cracked or broken from the hail.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	$2,000	Law enforcement reported wind damage with several large trees down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	$2,000	Several large tree limbs were downed across Osawatomie, causing power outages.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	$1,000	Power lines down on 6th Street due to strong winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	$1,000	Miami county sheriff reported power lines were downed in Osawatomie.
April 2026	Hail	Osawatomie	-	Ping pong ball sized hail.
April 2025	Hail	Osawatomie	-	Quarter sized hail reported in Osawatomie.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	A tree fell onto and damaged a house. Time estimated from radar.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	Social media report of a tree downed on top of a vehicle.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	Social media report of a tree downed on top of a vehicle.
May 2023	Hail	Osawatomie	-	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported in Osawatomie.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	Estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph were estimated in Osawatomie.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Osawatomie	-	Water was over the roads and flowing into some homes. The amount of property damage is unknown at this time.
September 2016	Flood	Osawatomie	-	A road was washed out at 351st and Lonestar Road. It's unclear what time the road washed out, but it was closed for a portion of the night. Damages are also unknown.
July 2015	Hail	Osawatomie	-	Quarter size hail reported at 7 Highway and US 169.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	Eight to ten inch tree limbs blown down.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Osawatomie	-	High water was reported neat 7th Street and Main Street in Osawatomie, due to very heavy rains. It was reported too deep for small cars to go through.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	Several trees were reported blown over on roads near Osawatomie. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
April 2010	Flash Flood	Osawatomie	-	Plum Creek Road and 335th Street, were closed due to flowing water over the road.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Osawatomie	-	Barricades put up due to flooding over PLum Creek Road.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Osawatomie	-	Heavy rains caused 319th Street and Osawatomie, along with 303 Street and Rogers, to be closed due to flooding.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Osawatomie	-	Several roads in Osawatomie had flooding due to the heavy rains.
June 2007	Flood	Osawatomie	-	The Marais Des Cygnes River at Osawatomie began flooding on June 28, 2007 and continued through July 5, 2007. The crest was on July 2, 2007 and is detailed in the July 2007 Storm Data Report.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Osawatomie	-	Two to three mile stretch of K-7 south of 169 under water. Numerous low water spots on Osawatomie Road under water.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds in Osawatomie.
June 2000	Flash Flood	Osawatomie	-	Several roads were closed due to high water.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	Law enforcement officials reported 70 mph wind gusts.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	The Miami County Sheriff's Office reported a 70 MPH wind gust during a severe thunderstorm at Osawatomie.
May 1997	Hail	Osawatomie	-	A severe weather spotter reported golfball-size hail near Osawatomie during a slow moving super cell severe thunderstorm.
July 1995	Hail	Osawatomie	-	Golf ball-size hail was reported in Oswatomie.
May 2020	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
February 2011	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
February 2011	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Osawatomie	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
Asylum Bridge	1.0 miles	1990
Congregational Church	1.1 miles	2013
Creamery Bridge	1.1 miles	1983
Soldiers' Monument	1.4 miles	2012
John Brown Cabin	1.5 miles	1971
West Elementary School	1.6 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003291 in Record Group 79.
Miami County	All 19 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.