Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank

Built in 1886. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank is a railroad water tank or water tower constructed in 1875, in Beaumont, Kansas. Louis, Wichita & Western Railway, and was used to refill the boilers of steam locomotives on that line.”
Wikipedia article Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure · built in 1886.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Third and D Sts., Beaumont, 67012
When was it listed? August 1993
Category. structure
Township. Glencoe township
When was it built? 1886
National Register reference number. 93000843 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank between 2015 and 2018, burning about 2,292 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
19 April 2018	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	14
9 March 2018	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Kansas Forest Service	45
31 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Butler County	58
20 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Butler County	9
20 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Butler County	11
17 March 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	14
12 March 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	7
27 February 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,190 acres	Butler County	WIEEMAN

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this property

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaumont, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 1993	Hail	Beaumont	$500,000	no account filed
May 2003	Tornado (F1)	Beaumont	$60,000	Farmstead damaged. Details courtesy of Jim Schmidt, Butler County Emergency Manager, and Andover Journal-Advocate.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaumont	$10,000	Unspecified roof damage.
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Beaumont	-	Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.90 inches.
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Beaumont	-	This is a 24 hour total.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaumont	-	The estimated gusts occurred between Beaumont and Leon.
May 2014	Hail	Beaumont	-	The hail was covering the road at US Highway 400 and Flint Hills road. The hail made the roadway very slick.
April 2014	Hail	Beaumont	-	The hail covered the ground.
April 2013	Heavy Rain	Beaumont	-	Observer in Beaumont measured 2.30 inches in the past 24 hours.
July 2021	Hail	Beaumont	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Beaumont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
	Beaumont Hotel	0.1 miles	2012
	Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Retention Pond	0.3 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000843 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler County	All 26 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.