Site No. JF00-072

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“JF00-072 is a survey monument located at the quadripoint of Republic and Washington counties in Kansas and Jefferson and Thayer counties in Nebraska. The monument marks the intersection of the sixth principal meridian and its baseline, the 40th parallel north; it serves as the initial point of all land surveys in Kansas and Nebraska, as well as most of Wyoming and Colorado, and part of South Dakota.”
Wikipedia article Site No. JF00-072, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Republic County · listed in 1987 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Thayer, Jefferson, Washington and Republic Co. lines, Mahaska, 66960
When was it listed? June 1987
Category. site
Also known as. Nebraska-Kansas Public Land Survey TR
Township. Albion township
National Register reference number. 87001000 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Site No. JF00-072 between 2014 and 2018, burning about 109 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
22 July 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1800003
18 February 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1800002
17 February 2018	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 February 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1500005
19 January 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1500002

Every fire recorded in Republic 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Cossaart Barn	1.0 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001000 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Republic County	All 11 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.