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One of 44 National Register listings published here for Riley County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Grimes House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 203 Delaware St., Manhatten, 66502
- When was it listed? May 1997
- Category. building
- City. Manhattan city
- National Register reference number. 97000409 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
141 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Grimes House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 3,415 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 54 |
| Debris and open burning | 47 |
| Fireworks | 12 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Riley County | 1674 |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 241 |
| 30 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 264 |
| 1 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 234 |
| 5 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 33 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18507 |
| 3 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1379 |
| 29 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1570 |
| 7 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1193 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grimes House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reichling Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | McFarlane-Wareham House | under 500 feet | 2004 |
 | Daniel and Maude Walters House | 0.1 miles | 2012 |
 | Landmark Water Tower | 0.1 miles | 2017 |
| Jesse Ingraham House | 0.3 miles | 2014 | |
| Rex Arms Apartments | 0.3 miles | 2025 | |
| Anderson Hall | 0.5 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 97000409 in Record Group 79. |
| Riley County | All 44 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.
- 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.