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One of 35 National Register listings published here for Doniphan County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mathew Eylar Barn No. 2
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Eylar, Mathew, Barn No. 2 - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. SE 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. 86003550 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
7 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mathew Eylar Barn No. 2 between 2015 and 2018, burning about 121 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Doniphan County | 2017032 |
| 27 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018026 |
| 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 |
| 6 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Doniphan County | 2017003 |
| 27 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018005 |
Storms near this property
19 since 1995Regional 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 |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathew Eylar Barn No. 1 | 1.3 miles | 1987 | |
| M. D. L. Williams Barn | 2.3 miles | 1987 | |
| Albert Albers Barn | 3.6 miles | 1987 | |
| St. Benedict's Church | 3.9 miles | 1998 | |
 | St. Mary's Catholic Church | 4.9 miles | 2001 |
 | T. L. White Barn | 5.3 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86003550 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.