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Photograph of White Cloud Historic District
Photograph by Patricia DuBose Duncan, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

White Cloud Historic District

Built in 1868. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The White Cloud Historic District is a 41.3 acres (16.7 ha) historic district in White Cloud, Kansas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is roughly bounded by Poplar, 6th, Chesnut Sts. and K-7 and included 67 contributing buildings and a contributing site, as well as 15 non-contributing buildings and a non-contributing site.”

Wikipedia article White Cloud Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Doniphan County · listed in 1996 · category: District · built in 1868.

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

The listing

Storms near this property

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Cloud, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodWhite Cloud$100,000Once the Missouri River started flooding on March 9, it remained in flood through the remainder of the month. The gauge in St. Joseph, Missouri reached 32.12 feet on March 22 (preliminarily a new record). The flooding was caused by several rounds of heavy snow across the Northern Plains through the winter months, followed by a rapid warm-up and several days of heavy rain. The Missouri River Basin across the Northern Plains flooded with catastrophic consequences as numerous dams and levees failed. As the water flowed into the Missouri River upstream of Buchanan County, the river swelled and ultimately overwhelmed the levees along the river. Local fields were also submerged, which delayed the growing season in the region, but several roads were washed away across Atchison County, and I-29 from St. Joseph northward to the Iowa/Missouri border was closed until mid May. Note: The dollar valued assigned to this event is likely inaccurate as a full tally of the extent of the physical damages is unknown. The Missouri River remained in flood through the rest of the month, into April.
April 2024Tornado (EFU)White Cloud-A tornado was reported by emergency management 2 miles west southwest of White Cloud at 215 pm on 4/27. A mutual aid storm survey conducted by NWS Topeka indicated no damage in the vicinity of the tornado. Therefore, the tornado is rated EF-Unknown.
April 2019FloodWhite Cloud-Ongoing flooding along the Missouri River continued through the month of April and into May. Several roads were closed near the banks of the Missouri River. This flooding began in mid March and due to upstream releases and continued periods of heavy rain the flooding continued into May. Monetary damages are unknown despite the entry indicating 0 dollars of damages.
June 2019FloodWhite Cloud-Heavy spring rains caused ongoing flooding along the Missouri River to Continue through the month. Some locations along the Missouri River experienced major flooding at times during the month. Damage estimates from roads washed out and crop damage are unknown at this time.
May 2019FloodWhite Cloud-Heavy spring rains caused ongoing flooding along the Missouri River to Continue through the month. Some locations along the Missouri River experienced major flooding at times during the month. Damage estimates from roads washed out and crop damage are unknown at this time.
May 2015Flash FloodWhite Cloud-K7 in White Cloud was flooded.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWhite Cloud-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 75 mph.
June 2010Flash FloodWhite Cloud-Duck Creek was reported to have overflowed Highway 7, north and west of White Cloud.
August 2018HailWhite Cloud-no account filed
June 2013HailWhite Cloud-no account filed
June 2005HailWhite Cloud-no account filed
May 2001HailWhite Cloud-no account filed
May 2000HailWhite Cloud-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
White Cloud School0.3 miles1973
Poulet House0.5 miles1971
Godfrey Nuzum Barn7.4 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000701 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Doniphan CountyAll 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.
  • 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.