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One of 28 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bethel School
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.
- Address. County Rd., Lincolnville, 66858
- When was it listed? December 1987
- Category. building
- Township. Clear Creek township
- National Register reference number. 87002114 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bethel School between 2016 and 2018, burning about 1,325 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 | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,200 acres | Marion County | LINCOLNVILLE |
| 1 February 2016 | Smoking | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 19 |
| 31 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 115 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 180001 |
Storms near this property
34 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincolnville, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 21 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 2011 | Hail | Lincolnville | $4,000 | Half dollar sized hail busted out windows and skylights to homes just west of Lincolnville. One car reported a broken windshield. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lincolnville | $3,000 | The large hail knocked out windows and punched holes in the top of a greenhouse. |
| June 2024 | Flood | Lincolnville | - | Public reported street flooding in Lincolnville via mPing. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnville | - | Reports via mPing of damaged trees with some uprooted or snapped. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnville | - | Trained spotter estimated wind gusts around 60 mph. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnville | - | Six-inch diameter tree limbs were downed. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnville | - | A storm chaser reported winds of 70 to 75 mph on a vehicle anemometer. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | Wind gusts of 70 to 75 mph were also reported. |
| November 2022 | Heavy Rain | Lincolnville | - | A Coop observer reported 2.65 inches of rainfall. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnville | - | This was an estimated gust. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Lincolnville | - | Numerous roads are covered with water making travel across the county extremely difficult. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | Winds around 50 mph were also reported. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Lincolnville | - | Water flowed across roads with creeks out of their banks. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnville | - | No damage was reported. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | CO-OP observer. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Lincolnville | - | Brief touchdown. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Island Field Ranch House | 6.6 miles | 1995 |
 | Amelia Park Bridge | 6.6 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002114 in Record Group 79. |
| Marion County | All 28 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.