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One of 30 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Federal Building-US Post Office
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Federal Building--US Post Office - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 123 N. 8th, Indpendence, 67301
- When was it listed? October 1988
- Category. building
- City. Independence city
- Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
- National Register reference number. 88002009 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
85 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Federal Building-US Post Office between 2015 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Montgomery County | 1740195 |
| 21 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Montgomery County | 1730028 |
| 4 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Montgomery County | 1460 |
| 19 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Montgomery County | 1259 |
| 5 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1086 |
| 4 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1510072 |
| 3 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1394 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Federal Building-US Post Office: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independence Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Independence Limestone Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Blakeslee Motor Company Building | under 500 feet | 1989 |
 | Booth Theater | under 500 feet | 1988 |
 | Cook's Hotel | under 500 feet | 2006 |
 | Independence Downtown Historic District | 0.1 miles | 2006 |
 | First Congregational Church | 0.1 miles | 2014 |
| Prairie Oil & Gas Building | 0.1 miles | 2024 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88002009 in Record Group 79. |
| Montgomery County | All 30 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.