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One of 35 National Register listings published here for Doniphan County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Doniphan County Waddell
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. Troy City Park, W. Myrtle St., Troy, 66002
- When was it listed? January 1990
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
- Township. Wayne township
- National Register reference number. 89002185 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Doniphan County Waddell between 1997 and 2002, burning about 508 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 July 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 13 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 January 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 January 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Storms near this property
29 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind. 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | $15,000 | Roof blown off a metal machine shed. Two other metal sheds were destroyed and a barn and residence had roof damage. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Social media report of downed power poles near Troy. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Tree limbs down in the area, with 60 mph estimated winds. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Emergency Manager reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Troy | - | This report was gathered via social media. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | A large tree of unknown condition or size was down on Seneca Street in Troy. Various tree limbs were also down across town. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Several trees of unknown size or condition were down. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | A spotter estimated winds to be around 65 mph. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Large tree reported down. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Wind gusts to 70 mph were reported by the public. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | The fire department estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | The Doniphan County Sheriff Office reported a 60 MPH wind gust a mile east of Troy. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Troy | - | Dime-size hail was reported by the sheriff's office 7 miles west of Troy during a severe thunderstorm. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Troy | - | Time estimated. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Troy | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brenner Vineyards Historic District | 1.7 miles | 2005 | |
 | J. A. Symns Barn | 5.2 miles | 1987 |
 | T. L. White Barn | 5.3 miles | 1987 |
| Nicholas Bohr Barn | 5.7 miles | 1987 | |
| Fred W. Kienhoff Barn | 5.7 miles | 1987 | |
| Herman Chrystal Barn | 6.8 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 89002185 in Record Group 79. |
| Doniphan County | All 35 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.