US Post Office-Burlington

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Coffey County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. US Post Office--Burlington - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 107 S. Fourth St., Burlington, 66839
When was it listed? October 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Kansas Post Offices with Artwork, 1936-1942 MPS
City. Burlington city
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 89001634 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Burlington between 2015 and 2017, burning about 57 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	345
18 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Coffey County	353
8 April 2015	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Kansas Forest Service	168
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Kansas Forest Service	143
31 March 2015	Smoking	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	136
26 March 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	120
17 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	97
16 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Coffey County	126

Every fire recorded in Coffey County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Burlington: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Arrowhead Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Venture Quarry No. 5	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Coffey County

Storms near this property

60 of 105 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington, the town this property stands in, in 105 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 38 hail, 18 flash flood, 4 lightning. 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
November 1998	Flash Flood	Burlington	$1,000,000	no account filed
June 2025	Flash Flood	Burlington	$100,000	Storm Spotter in Burlington reports that Rock Creek is overflowing into several homes.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Burlington	$100,000	Numerous roads under water in Burlington and from Burlington to Waverly.
May 2004	Lightning	Burlington	$63,000	Lightning struck a house and ignited a fire that destroyed most of the house and its contents.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Burlington	$50,000	Water two feet deep was flowing across 12th road between Wayside and Shetland. Also, 16th and 17th Rd. between Reaper and Quail is flooded.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Burlington	$40,000	Several gravel roads in the county with water flowing over them at least 6 inches deep. Every unpaved road southeast of Burlington has at least some water running over them.
June 2007	Flood	Burlington	$40,000	The intersection of 12th and Shetland road and the intersection of 16th and Quail road were both water covered and impassable. Reports of up to 4.5 inches of rain.
March 2004	Flash Flood	Burlington	$25,000	no account filed
October 1998	Flash Flood	Burlington	$25,000	no account filed
May 2004	Lightning	Burlington	$15,000	Lightning struck a house in Burlington and started a fire that did considerable damage to the house.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Burlington	$10,000	Spotter report that one foot of water was flowing over Xeric Road, outside of the city of Burlington. Several hours later, around 11am CST, one to two feet of water continued to flow over county and gravel roads to the east of Burlington. A bit earlier, at 7:14 am CST, water was reported to be running over 22nd Road. At 7:34 CST, Emmer Road between 24th and 25th Streets water covered and impassible.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$10,000	Strong winds tore apart a metal storage building with parts of it striking electric lines and a pickup truck doing extensive damage to the truck. Brick signs at 2 schools were also blown over.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$5,000	A Dericho wind storm moved northwest to southeast across northeast and central Kansas producing winds of 50 to 100 mph. The high winds caused widespread and significant damage to nearly every county. Numerous power lines were knocked down, trees uprooted with buildings and roofs damaged or destroyed. The most severe damage and highest winds appeared to occur in a line from near Marysville to Westmoreland/Emmett to Topeka to Lawrence. It was likely the worst "straight line" and most widespread wind storm in at least ten years. The local electrical utility, Kansas Power and Light, estimated damages to their system at $10 to $15 million.
April 1993	Hail	Burlington	$5,000	Soft hail about the size of golfballs accumulated to a couple of inches. No major damage was reported. However locally heavy rainfall caused temporary flooding of low lying and poor drainage areas.
May 1999	Lightning	Burlington	$3,000	Lightning struck a residence doing an estimated 3 thousand dollars damage to the chimney, roof and electrical appliances.
August 2000	Lightning	Burlington	$2,000	Lightning struck a house and ignited a fire that caused minor damage.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Burlington	$1,000	High water covering roadways in west Burlington.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$1,000	A wind gust blew a tractor trailer onto it's side. Highway 75 was partially blocked by the trailer.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Burlington	$500	Ditches, yards, and several roads full of water.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Burlington	$500	Street flooding occurring in Burlington.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$500	A 6 inch diameter tree branch fell as a result of thunderstorm winds in Burlington.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$500	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	A building in town lost its roof. There was also scattered, significant tree damage elsewhere in Burlington.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Several large tree branches down across Burlington. One large limb knocked down on top of power lines. Time was estimated by radar.
June 2025	Flood	Burlington	-	Report of street flooding in Burlington.
March 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	From personal weather station.
May 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Burlington	-	Emergency manager provided photos of damage that radar suggests could have been associated with a small tornado embedded with a developing line of storms.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Estimated 60 mph gusts.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Report of tree damage blocking roadways and a stop sign blown over in Burlington.
July 2023	Hail	Burlington	-	Nickel sized hail and 50 mph wind gusts reported.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Measured on a personal weather station.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Measured on a personal weather station.
April 2019	Flash Flood	Burlington	-	Highway 75 was flooded and closed in southern Burlington.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Burlington	-	Highway 75 is closed in Burlington. Multiple roads in Burlington and in the county are closed.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Burlington	-	Several roads under water including US-75.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Burlington	-	A couple of roadways in Burlington were barricaded due to flash-flooding.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Phone line knocked down at 10th and Alleghanet.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Report of 5 inch diameter tree branch broken off a maple tree.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Burlington	-	Flooding ongoing in Coffey county with roads closed in Burlington. At 16th and Angus water was running over the road.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Large limbs and trees down causing power outages.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	A few trees blew down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Three trees blew down.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Lawn furniture was blown off the deck and small tree limbs were broken.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Numerous small tree limbs were broken as a result of strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Measured wind gust of 66 mph at wolf creek power plant.
April 2009	Hail	Burlington	-	Lasted for approximately 3 minutes.
May 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Burlington	-	A brief tornado touched down in an open field to the northeast of Burlington, associated with a supercell thunderstorm that moved through east central Kansas the evening of May 13, 2009. No damage was reported. The KMBC (Kansas City news station) helicopter and the public observed and videotaped the tornado.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Trees fell down.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Trees are uprooted and power lines are down in Burlington.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	La Hacienda restaurant, the Burlington Middle School sign, a grain bin at the intersection of Cross and Cleveland, and play equipment at the Trinity Lutheran Preschool were all damaged by the thunderstorm winds.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Spotter in Burlington called in 60mph winds estimate. Second spotter, nearby in Burlington, called in damage report, including shingles having been blown from roof and some tree damage.
May 2008	Hail	Burlington	-	Hail reported at both the sheriff's office in Burlington, and two miles west of Burlington at this time.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Wind speeds estimated to be 70 to 80mph by law enforcement, and relayed to the County Sheriff's office. Streets signs and a couple of trees were reported to have blown over in the southwestern portion of Burlington. An officer also reported a trampoline being blown around, and an overturned swing set in the same part of town.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Burlington	-	Water was reported rushing over a county road north of Burlington.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Burlington	-	A tornado touched down over open country 5 miles southwest of Burlington.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Burlington	-	Heavy rains produced street flooding in Burlington.
April 1993	Hail	Burlington	-	Hail fell long enough to cover the ground.
April 2019	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
April 2019	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coffey 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

2 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
	Burlington Carnegie Free Library	0.2 miles	1987
	Plaza Theater	0.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001634 in Record Group 79.
Coffey County	All 5 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.
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.