Zweibel Farmstead

Built in 1867. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Zweibel Farmstead is a historic estate with a farm house and several outbuildings in Papillion, Nebraska, United States. It was established by George Zweibel and his wife Sophia.”
Wikipedia article Zweibel Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Sarpy County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1867.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 16302 S 63rd St., Papillion, 68133
When was it listed? November 2000
Category. building
Precinct. Fairview precinct
When was it built? 1867
National Register reference number. 00001377 - 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

70 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Zweibel Farmstead between 2008 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	16
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Sarpy County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Zweibel Farmstead: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	La Platt Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Plant #5,Cullom	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sarpy County

Storms near this property

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Papillion, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 43 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	$250,000	Thunderstorm gusts estimated at 70 to 80 mph did major roof damage to several homes and businesses in Papillion.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked over an 80 foot tree which crashed into a car.
April 2026	Hail	Papillion	-	Public report of hail measured up to 1 inch in diameter near Chalco, NE.
April 2026	Hail	Papillion	-	Delayed hail report received via social media. Sizes ranged from nickel to quarter size and lasted for around 8 to 10 minutes. Time estimated via radar.
April 2026	Hail	Papillion	-	Public report of hail estimated up to 1.25 inches in diameter near La Vista, NE.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	The office received a photo on social media of a large tree limb down across Coach Road south of Cedardale Road. The time was estimated based on radar.
April 2024	Hail	Papillion	-	The office received several reports from the public and trained spotters in the Papillion area of hail ranging from 1 to 2 inches in diameter. The largest hail stone, measured at 2 inches, was reported in downtown Papillion by the public.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	An 82 miles per hour wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	The office received a report of siding torn off the side of a home.
June 2023	Hail	Papillion	-	Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and 60 mph winds.
June 2023	Hail	Papillion	-	Emergency manager reported 1-inch hail.
April 2023	Hail	Papillion	-	Public reported 1-inch hail via Mping.
April 2023	Hail	Papillion	-	Broadcast Media relayed a report of 1-inch hail.
August 2021	Hail	Papillion	-	Public reported 1-inch hail.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Public report via social media reported tree damage and power outages.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	One inch tree limbs blown down. Shingles blown off roof.
June 2017	Hail	Papillion	-	Ping-pong ball size hail was reported at 96th Street and Highway 370 in Papillion.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Large tree branch was blown down.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Widespread tree and wind damage was reported in the Papillion area.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	A spotter estimated a wind gust of 70 mph near Papillion.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Images received from social media indicate numerous tree branches, some 6 to 9 inches in diameter, downed in the city of Papillion.
May 2014	Hail	Papillion	-	Reported near 168th and Giles.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph or higher downed numerous large limbs and a few trees in the La Vista area. Power was lost in the area as well. Several tents set up for the Papillion Days festival in Papillion sustained damage because of the wind or because tree limbs fell on them.
May 2012	Hail	Papillion	-	In the La Vista area.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	A bowing segment of a line of thunderstorms produced areas of tree damage, some structural and vehicle damage and power outages from the south part of Omaha into Papillion and Bellevue. At Offutt Afb, a thunderstorm wind gust of 77 mph was measured at 500 am CDT and some home weather equipment in the area measured gusts over 60 mph. Around 10,500 homes lost power from the storm in southern Omaha and in Sarpy county. According to the Omaha World Herald, the worst damage occurred in an area bounded roughly from 25th to 48th streets south of Highway 370, though trees were downed or damaged in many areas of Bellevue. The Bellevue Medical Center sustained outside panel damage which allowed rain water to get inside the northwest side of the structure damaging 20 rooms and forcing 5 patients to move to different rooms.
June 2010	Hail	Papillion	-	Hail around 1 inch in diameter fell for just under 10 minutes around the 84th and Cornhusker area.
August 2010	Hail	Papillion	-	Hail up to 3 inches in diameter fell from the La Vista area southeast through Bellevue, especially the north part of that town. The larger hail in Sarpy county was reported in the La Vista area, with 2.5 inch hail reported in Papillion near 72nd and Giles and 1 to 1.5 inch hail reported in Bellevue. The hail caused scattered vehicle damage.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	A trained spotter measured thunderstorm wind gusts of 67 mph with home weather equipment.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Strong winds spread from the Papillion area across Bellevue and Offutt AFB causing scattered tree damage and downed power lines. A wind gust of 67 mph was measured at Offutt AFB at 752 pm CDT.
August 2007	Hail	Papillion	-	Hail up to penny size was reported from around Papillion to Offutt AFB.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph blew down a tree blocking a local road near 121st and Fairview Road.
March 2006	Tornado (F0)	Papillion	-	An Fo tornado touched down 3/4 mile south of the intersection of 84th Street and Capehart Road. The tornado was on the ground for 3 miles with a path width of 150 yards. The tornado downed numerous trees and power lines in its path, blew down fences and caused some structual damage to several buildings including a church at 84th and Glenwood Ave. The tornado also blew out car windows at Midlands Hospital.
May 2006	Hail	Papillion	-	Near 66th Street and Highway 370.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph rolled across the Papillion and Bellevue area. The strong winds were accompanied by hail up to and over 1 inch in diameter and caused scattered tree and building damage across the area including knocking down several large trees. The winds also overturned some truck trailers near 72nd Street and Highway 370. OPPD reported that 3000 customers lost their power from the storm.
June 2005	Hail	Papillion	-	Hail up to softball size fell in a narrow swath across the Omaha metro area. Most hailstones in this swath in Douglas county were 2 inches or less in diameter, with the largest stones, around softball size, reported in extreme northern Sarpy county in Papillion. The swath of 1 inch or larger hailstones was generally east of 72nd Street and stretched from just southwest of the Capehart area southwest of Offutt AFB, into Papillion then toward the Florence area. The hail caused scattered house and car damage, but since the largest stones were relatively isolated and fell during light winds, damage was not serious according to the Omaha World Herald.
June 2005	Hail	Papillion	-	Hail up to 2 inches in diameter caused tree and vehicle damage in Papillion. This storm moved from Papillion into the Bellevue and Offutt AFB area and then into Council Bluffs Iowa but not before clipping the southern part of Omaha in Douglas county.
May 2005	Hail	Papillion	-	Hail up to penny size fell south of Papillion for about 10 minutes.
August 2005	Hail	Papillion	-	Reported near 96th and Fairview Road.
May 2004	Hail	Papillion	-	This severe thunderstorm moved across extreme southern Douglas county and through much of Sarpy county. Hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter was reported from Papillion through Bellevue and to Offutt Airforce Base.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph caused extensive damage to a large tree which blocked a road.
August 2002	Hail	Papillion	-	Hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter was reported from Papillion through Bellevue then to south of Offutt Afb.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Papillion	-	Large tree limbs downed.
June 2017	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Papillion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sarpy 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
McCarty-Lilley House	4.7 miles	1978
Blacksmith Shop	5.6 miles	1978
Fort Crook Historic District	5.7 miles	1976
John Sautter Farmhouse	6.0 miles	1980
Third Sarpy County Courthouse	6.0 miles	1990
Springfield Community Hall	6.4 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001377 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sarpy County	All 15 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.