Herter Farmstead

Built in 1876 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Herter Farmstead is an estate with a historic farm house and several outbuildings in Walton, Nebraska. The two-story house was built in 1876 for Abraham Herter, an immigrant from Switzerland.”
Wikipedia article Herter Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Lancaster County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1876, Queen Anne style.

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

The listing

Address. 4949 S 148th, Walton, 68461
When was it listed? July 2000
Category. building
Precinct. Stockton precinct
When was it built? 1876
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 00000835 - 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

32 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Herter Farmstead between 2013 and 2020, burning about 286 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
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 July 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
12 May 2018	Smoking	220 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this property

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walton, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	-	Personal weather station measured wind gust of 58 mph.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	-	Trained spotter reported a measured peak wind gust of 70 mph.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Walton	-	Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
September 2019	Hail	Walton	-	Quarter sized hail lasted for about 10 minutes near Holdrege Street and South 134th Street east of Lincoln.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Walton	-	An amateur radio operator reported 1.8 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
March 2009	Hail	Walton	-	Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported just south and just east of Lincoln. The hail fell from the supercell thunderstorm that produced several tornadoes southeast through east of town.
May 2016	Hail	Walton	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Walton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Herter Farmstead (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	2004
Lincoln Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District	6.1 miles	2012
Park Manor Residential Historic District	6.4 miles	2013
Eastridge Historic District	6.8 miles	2017
College View Public Library	6.9 miles	1984
Christian Record Building	7.0 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lancaster County	All 110 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.