Built in 1869 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Lanesfield School is a historic limestone one-room school in Edgerton, Kansas that operated as a school from 1869 to 1963. The school is an example of the one-room schoolhouses that served much of rural America during the nineteenth century, and it is the only remaining structure from the former town of Lanesfield, which served as a mail stop along the Pony Express and Santa Fe Trail.”
Wikipedia article Lanesfield School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 34 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1869, vernacular architecture.
National Register reference number. 88001902 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
61 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Lanesfield School
between 2007 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 2 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
23
Debris and open burning
23
Fireworks
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Natural
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Edgerton, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 18 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
Severe thunderstorms produced hail up to the size of baseballs and 60 knot winds throughout parts of western and southern Johnson County. Hail broke numerous windows and heavily damaged roofs and automobiles. Damage was also reported in Clare.
A 40 foot by 80 foot barn was destroyed by a microburst near Edgerton. Nearby power poles were also heavily damaged and 8 to 10 inch tree limbs were also torn off of trees.
A 3 mile path of wind damage associated with strong straight line winds, or a downburst moved across the far southern portion of the county, from the Douglas county line west and southwest of Edgerton all the way to the Cass county (MO) line east of Stillwell. The damage was observed mainly along 199th street, with numerous trees broken or tipped leaning to the south. Trees were also downed in the Edgerton cemetery. A brief tornado was also attributed to this storm, crossing into the county west of Edgerton from Douglas county. (See additional entries for more information, and also see reports from Topeka - TOP.)
Areas near Gardner and Edgerton received 2 to 3 inches of rain, resulting in some intersections being closed-off. These intersections include: Waverly Road and 175th and Moonlight and Santa Fe in Gardner.
A HAM Radio Operator in Johnson County reported several 70 MPH wind gusts within a 20 minute period between 1755 and 1815 LST during a severe thunderstorm in Edgerton.
A 3 mile path of wind damage associated with strong straight line winds, or a downburst moved across the far southern portion of the county, from the Douglas county line west and southwest of Edgerton all the way to the Cass county (MO) line east of Stillwell. The damage was observed mainly along 199th street, with numerous trees broken or tipped leaning to the south. Trees were also downed in the Edgerton cemetery. A brief tornado was also attributed to this storm, crossing into the county west of Edgerton from Douglas county. (See additional entries for more information, and also see reports from Topeka - TOP.)
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.
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.
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