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Photograph of Fort Scott National Cemetery
Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Scott National Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Fort Scott National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Fort Scott, in Bourbon County, Kansas. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 21.8 acres (8.8 ha), and as of 2021, had more than 8,000 interments.”

Wikipedia article Fort Scott National Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Bourbon County · listed in 1999 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 900 East National Ave., Fort Scott, 66701
  • When was it listed? July 1999
  • Category. site
  • Township. Scott township
  • National Register reference number. 99000835 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Fort Scott National Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 458 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning11
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1054
24 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFort Scott National Historic SitePRAIRIE
10 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1000
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service189
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service754
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service161
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 April 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFort Scott National Historic SiteENCAMPMENT

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Scott National Cemetery: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ft. Scott Pottery Co.ClayPlant
Cullor Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morris Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Scott, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Scott$500Trees were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Scott$500no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindFort Scott-Windows blown out in the city of Fort Scott. Large trees and power lines downed.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindFort Scott-no account filed
May 1995HailFort Scott-no account filed
July 1995HailFort Scott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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

6 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
Eugene Ware Elementary School1.2 miles2005
First Congregational Church1.3 miles2005
Thomas L. and Anna B. Herbert House1.3 miles2021
Moody Building1.4 miles1977
Fort Scott Public Carnegie Library1.5 miles1987
Fort Scott Downtown Historic District1.5 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bourbon CountyAll 14 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.
  • 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.