Babbitt-Doerr House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Pawnee County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Babbitt--Doerr House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 423 W. 5th St., Larned, 67550
When was it listed? April 1995
Category. building
City. Larned city
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 95000477 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 Babbitt-Doerr House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Eakin Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Larned Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this property

60 of 234 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larned, the town this property stands in, in 234 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 140 hail, 75 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 5 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	1 hurt, $3,200,000	no account filed
May 1993	Tornado (F1)	Larned	$500,000	The tornado destroyed several farm buildings including sheds and grain bins. Seven center pivot irrigation systems were also destroyed.
May 1993	Tornado (F0)	Larned	$500,000	Tornado moved over open farmland and destroyed several irrigation systems.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$250,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$100,000	Damage at the Heritage Feeders was reported. There were many tall standing structures with some sort of damage, including the feed mill, concrete silo, sheds and concrete walls tipped over.
May 1999	Hail	Larned	$100,000	$100,000 in damage across the county.
August 2003	Lightning	Larned	$80,000	A house was hit by lightning and was completely destroyed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$40,000	Power poles down and pivot sprinkler overturned.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$30,000	Pivot sprinkler overturned and 18 inch diameter tree limb broken.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$20,000	A 40 by 80 foot shed was destroyed.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$10,000	Damage to Al Hanken Motors. Other areas of town had broken windows from an apparent Rear Flank Downdraft.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$6,500	Thirteen power poles blown down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$5,000	Large tree limbs down.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$5,000	Grain bin blown apart.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$2,000	Road signs along highway 156 were blown down into adjacent fields.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$1,000	Lots of tree damage but perhaps not enough to justify the estimated 100 mph wind.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	$500	Three inch diameter limbs down.
April 2025	Hail	Larned	-	A public report for hail of 0.75 inches.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	A dead tree branch measuring 7 inches in diameter, was broken off. This wind damage report was received through social media.
August 2024	Hail	Larned	-	Hail the size of quarters was reported by the public.
August 2024	Hail	Larned	-	The public reported golf ball sized hail in Larned.
August 2024	Hail	Larned	-	Hail measuring one and one half inches in diameter was reported by the public.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	A wind gust measured at 72 mph by a mesonet station in Larned.
August 2024	Hail	Larned	-	Baseball sized hail was reported in Larned at 10:35 am.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Tree limbs down, wire down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Tree limbs down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Strong winds.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Three inch tree limbs broken and power poles broken in Larned.
October 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	A tree was reported down in Larned due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Larned	-	Rainfall of 3.48 inches was measured.
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Larned	-	Rainfall of 3.50 inches was measured.
April 2019	Hail	Larned	-	Quarter to golf ball sized hail.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	There were multiple reports of large tree limbs blown down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	There were many 4 inch diameter tree limbs blown down by the high wind.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Larned	-	Rainfall of 2.72 inches was recorded in about an hour.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Larned	-	Rainfall of 3.24 inches was measured in several hours.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Larned	-	Rainfall of 3.44 inches was observed.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Larned	-	Rainfall of 2.78 inches was observed.
October 2018	Heavy Rain	Larned	-	Rainfall for the period was 4.0 inches.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Larned	-	Water was reported over several county roads.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Measured at the Larned middle school.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Larned	-	Rainfall of 4.04 inches in less than 2 hours produced extensive flooding in and around Larned. Several vehicles stalled in the high water.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	A flat roof was ripped off a business on the west side of Larned. Also, a couple of 12 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2013	Hail	Larned	-	The hail was mostly dime to nickel sized.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Nickel sized hail also fell with the high wind.
August 2011	Hail	Larned	-	Wind gusts to 60 MPH accompanied the hail.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. There was also 1/2 inch diameter hail.
June 2010	Heavy Rain	Larned	-	Rainfall of 5.80 was reported.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	There were numerous reports of damage in Larned with numerous large tree branches blown down and windows broken.
June 2008	Hail	Larned	-	The hail was mostly pea sized.
October 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Power lines were blown down and partial power outages were reported in Larned.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Three large trees were blown over.
May 2007	Flood	Larned	-	Water was over highways 56 and 156.
May 2007	Flood	Larned	-	Streets were flooded with several stranded cars reported. 3.03 of rain fell in only 1 hour and 15 minutes.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	Several six inch diameter limbs were blown down at a location 6 miles NNW of Larned.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Larned	-	KSN-TV Weather Lab at the Fort Larned middle school.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Larned	-	Lots of rotation. Funnel briefly touched down. Rear Flank Downdraft caused lots of damage in larned.

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
JG Edwards Building	0.3 miles	2025
Patterson House	0.4 miles	2001
Ooten House	0.8 miles	2001
Fort Larned National Historic Site	6.7 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000477 in Record Group 79.
Pawnee 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.
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.