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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Washington County Kingpost
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. SE of Barnes, Barnes, 66933
- When was it listed? January 1990
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
- Township. Lincoln township
- National Register reference number. 89002184 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Washington County Kingpost in 2015, burning about 24 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015006 |
| 14 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015004 |
| 13 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015003 |
Storms near this property
32 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnes, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Tornado (F2) | Barnes | $750,000 | This tornado touched down at 420pm cst 5 miles north of Barnes and was on the ground for 17 miles before crossing the state line into Gage County, Nebraska 3.5 miles east-northeast of Hollenberg, Kansas...or about 3 miles south and 0.5 miles west of Odell, Nebraska. It was caused by a supercell thunderstorm and was sighted by many storm chasers and storm spotters. Most of the damage with this tornado was rated as F0 or F1. However, strong F2 damage was noted near the intersection of Highways 36 and 148, where one brick home had the roof torn off and some of the exterior walls knocked down. The occupants of the home were in the basement and had to be helped from the damaged home by emergency personel. Four outbuildings were also damaged at this location. Elsewhere, the tornado caused damage to one other home and five additional outbuildings as well as many trees, and one home was completely destroyed just southeast of Hanover. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | $5,000 | Significant tree damage was caused by thunderstorm winds. |
| September 1993 | Hail | Barnes | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | Personal weather station. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | Sheriffs office reported minor tree damage in Barnes. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Barnes | - | Ping pong ball sized hail reported. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Barnes | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was estimated by a photo. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | Large tree branches broken, up to 3 inches. Time was estimated from radar. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Barnes | - | Coon Creek, south of Greenleaf, was out of its banks. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Barnes | - | This was a delayed report, and was radar estimated. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Barnes | - | A tornado briefly touched down just west of Barnes. Buildings at several residences sustained damage, includeing several outbuildings. The porch was also reported to have been blown off of a house. |
| January 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Barnes | - | The tornado formed from a low-topped mini-supercell 4 miles SSW of Fact and was on the ground briefly before dissipating 0.5 miles E of Fact. It caused only tree damage and had a path width of about 50 yards. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| November 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Barnes | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Barnes | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89002184 in Record Group 79. |
| Washington County | All 7 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.