Mathew Eylar Barn No. 1

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Doniphan County · listed in 1987 · 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. Eylar, Mathew, Barn No. 1 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. S of Denton off KS 20, Denton, 66017
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Byre and Bluff Barns of Doniphan County TR
Township. Union township
National Register reference number. 86003549 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mathew Eylar Barn No. 1 between 2015 and 2018, burning about 38 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015012
6 March 2017	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Doniphan County	2017012
13 March 2018	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2018008
27 February 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2018005

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this property

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denton, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Denton	$200,000	Several barns were destroyed, including the historic Round Barn landmark. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Denton	-	Several tree limbs blown down and minor property damage at a residence near Denton.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Denton	-	An Emergency Manager reported 60 mph winds from the same location as golf ball sized hail.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Denton	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 mph.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Denton	-	A grain bin and an out building were blown on to a road and destroyed.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Denton	-	Water was flowing over Highway 20.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Denton	-	Brief tornado touchdown noted by Doniphan County spotters north of Denton. No damage noted.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Denton	-	Several trees uprooted and numerous tree limbs down.
April 1995	Hail	Denton	-	A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball- to baseball-size hail from Highland to just north of Denton. An apparant tornado formed two miles north of Denton and tracked east for 12 miles to near Wathena. Damage was intermittant along the narrow path, which averaged about 100-yards in width. Roofs were blown off of several barns and outbuildings. (F0)
August 2019	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Denton	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Denton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Mathew Eylar Barn No. 2	1.3 miles	1987
M. D. L. Williams Barn	3.6 miles	1987
St. Mary's Catholic Church	4.1 miles	2001
St. Benedict's Church	4.8 miles	1998
Albert Albers Barn	4.9 miles	1987
T. L. White Barn	6.5 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003549 in Record Group 79.
Doniphan County	All 35 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.