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Whitney Ranch Historic District

Built in 1883. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Whitney Ranch is a historic ranch in Chase County, Kansas, located southeast of the ghost town of Hymer. The ranch consists of a two-story limestone house, which was built circa 1883, and four smaller outbuildings: a wash house, privy, chicken coop, and carriage house.”
Wikipedia article Whitney Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Chase County · listed in 1995 · category: District · built in 1883.

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

The listing

Address. SE of Hymer off unnamed rd., Hymer, 66850
When was it listed? May 1995
Category. district
Township. Diamond Creek township
When was it built? 1883
National Register reference number. 95000589 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Whitney Ranch Historic District in 2018, burning about 6 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	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
16 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.7 acres	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	ROCK WALL

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Storms near this property

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hymer, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2007: 7 hail. 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
May 2007	Hail	Hymer	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Hymer	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Hymer	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Hymer	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Hymer	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Hymer	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Hymer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chase 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

3 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
Spring Hill Ranch	6.4 miles	1997
Lower Fox Creek School	6.9 miles	1974
Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch House	7.3 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000589 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chase County	All 21 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.