Lake Nemaha Dam Guardrail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Lake Nemaha Dam Guardrail, located about 5 miles (8.0 km) miles south of Seneca, Kansas on Kansas Highway 63, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in about 1937.”
Wikipedia article Lake Nemaha Dam Guardrail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Nemaha County · listed in 2008 · category: Object.

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

The listing

Address. 5.12 miles south of Seneca, KS on Hwy 63, Seneca, 66538
When was it listed? July 2008
Category. object
Also known as. New Deal-Era Resources of Kansas MPS
Township. Mitchell township
National Register reference number. 08000620 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

18 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Lake Nemaha Dam Guardrail between 2015 and 2020, burning about 343 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	41
10 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nemaha County	13
8 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kansas Forest Service	12
22 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kansas Forest Service	22
22 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	225 acres	Kansas Forest Service	21
21 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	20
13 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Kansas Forest Service	15
13 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	16

Every fire recorded in Nemaha County

Storms near this property

60 of 105 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seneca, the town this property stands in, in 105 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 46 thunderstorm wind, 44 hail, 6 tornado, 6 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1999	Tornado (F1)	Seneca	1 hurt, $100,000	A small tornado struck near Seneca and damaged a few farm homes and out buildings. One person was injured.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	$500,000	High winds knocked over a large silo on a farrow house killing at least 15 hogs and trapping many others for several days. Other damage to trees, buildings and power lines was reported in the area.
April 1999	Tornado (F1)	Seneca	$350,000	A tornado touched down 5 miles east of Seneca and moved northeast for about 10 miles. Considerable damage occured to 6 farm buildings. Twelve hogs were killed.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	$50,000	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Seneca	$30,000	no account filed
July 1997	Tornado (F1)	Seneca	$15,000	no account filed
April 2026	Flood	Seneca	$10,000	The Nemaha River is out of its banks and 146th street is closed west of highway 63.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	$10,000	Strong winds damaged the roofs of several houses. Several small trailers were tipped over. A propane tank was blown loose from its moorings and upended.
June 1999	Flash Flood	Seneca	$5,000	Between 3 and 7 inches of rain fell causing flash flooding doing extensive agricultural damage and closing several roads and highways for a time. Several trailer homes were also evacuated for a time. Some businesses and homes were flooded with some minor damage.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	$3,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	$2,000	no account filed
May 2005	Flash Flood	Seneca	$1,000	Fast flowing water running across highway 36 and other area rural roads.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	$500	Strong winds blew down a tree and blew out two windows in a law enforcement vehicle.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Personal weather station.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Multiple trees down in Seneca, truck blown off Highway 36 east of town.
October 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Personal weather station in Seneca.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Large tree 2 to 3 feet in diameter downed.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Estimated wind gust of 60 mph.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Report via social media.
April 2022	Hail	Seneca	-	Nickel sized hail reported.
June 2022	Hail	Seneca	-	Report of mainly pea to half inch hail with a few hailstones around quarter size.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Report of 3 utility poles and street signs blown down, and numerous trees damaged in the city.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Measured at mesonet station k5fvw us-36 at Delaware Road in Sabetha.
May 2019	Hail	Seneca	-	Social media picture.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	The report estimated 60 MPH winds with penny size hail.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Wind damage to an outbuilding and a grain bin.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Seneca	-	Flash flooding was reported along hwy 36 in Seneca and hwy 187 near Centralia.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Tree limbs blown down causing power outages in town. Officials also reported roof damage to a cement plant and fence at the baseball field.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Tree limbs up to 10 inches in diameter down across hwy 63.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Window blown out of a garage door.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Reports of power lines broken and several leaning.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Power was out due to the winds.
May 2013	Flash Flood	Seneca	-	Report of water over roadway on K63 approx 2 miles north of US36 near Seneca.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	A trash container was blown 40 feet in town.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind near Seneca.
September 2010	Flash Flood	Seneca	-	The County emergency manager reported 6 to 12 inches of water running over Highway 187, 2 miles south Highway 36.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	A trained spotter near Seneca reported a 70 mph wind gust.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	Reported at the Nemaha County dispatch center in Seneca.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Winds to 60 to 65 mph lasted for 15 minutes.
June 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	This report was relayed by WIBW TV.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Spotter called from his vehicle, and reported that his car was being rocked by the strong winds.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	A spotter called several times to report wind gusts of sixty to seventy miles per hour over the ten minute period.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down at least four trees and several tree limbs 6 to 8 inches in diameter in the town of Seneca. One such tree limb fell onto neighboring power lines.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Time estimated by the Spotter.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Seneca	-	Heavy rains produced flash flooding for a time with many roads covered by water for a time.
April 2000	Tornado (F0)	Seneca	-	A cold air funnel touched down in an open field near Seneca.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	A gust to 76 mph was recorded at the mesonet site of a local TV station.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Seneca	-	Strong winds downed trees in Seneca.
June 1999	Flood	Seneca	-	Over 2 inches of rain fell in a short time period and caused several small creeks and streams to go into minor flooding for a time. Some streets in Seneca were covered with water. Also the Nemaha River and Turkey Creek caused some minor agricultural and road flooding.
April 2014	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Seneca	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nemaha 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

4 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
Seneca Main Street Historic District	4.4 miles	2006
Nemaha County Jail and Sheriff's House	4.5 miles	2004
US Post Office-Seneca	4.6 miles	1989
Hand-Dug City Water Well	4.7 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000620 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nemaha County	All 12 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.
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.