Kaw Indian Agency

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kay County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. N of the Arkansas River, Washunga, 74641
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
Census division. Kaw City
National Register reference number. 73001562 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kaw Indian Agency between 2002 and 2006, burning about 177 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
10 May 2006	Natural	under an acre	Pawnee Agency	ADENA
3 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	160 acres	Osage Agency	APPERSON
27 February 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	HISSUM
10 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Pawnee Agency	KILDARE 2
5 December 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Osage Agency	FROZEN
4 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Osage Agency	E. KILDARE

Every fire recorded in Kay County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kaw Indian Agency: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Peel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kay 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Kaw City Depot	2.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001562 in Record Group 79.
Kay County	All 60 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.