Inter-State Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Inter-State Building is a six-story commercial building in the central business district of Kansas City, Missouri, that was built during 1914-15. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”
Wikipedia article Inter-State Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 414 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 417 E. 13th St./1300 Locust St., Jackson, 64106
When was it listed? June 2008
Category. building
Township. Kaw township
Architectural style. Chicago School
National Register reference number. 08000534 - 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

138 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Inter-State Building between 2007 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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	90
Arson/incendiarism	13
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	24406
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyandotte County	23456
28 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 69 workings within 5 miles of Inter-State Building: 65 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lite Weight Products Perlite Plant	Perlite	Producer
Unknown-Ls and Shale	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown-S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown-S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown-S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Doyle Rock Company Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kansas City Public Library and Board of Education Building	under 500 feet	2017
Federal Office Building	0.1 miles	2021
Traders National Bank Building	0.1 miles	2016
Professional Building	0.1 miles	1979
Gate City National Bank	0.1 miles	1982
Exchange Building	0.2 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000534 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 414 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.