Lee and Gottliebe Fritz House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Lee and Gottliebe Fritz House, located at 132 North Oak in Gordon, Nebraska, is a historic house that was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Lee and Gottliebe Fritz House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Sheridan County · listed in 2003 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Fritz, Lee and Gottliebe, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 132 North Oak, Gordon, 69343
When was it listed? November 2003
Category. building
City. Gordon city
Architectural style. Dutch Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 03001213 - 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

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lee and Gottliebe Fritz House between 2007 and 2020, burning about 456 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2013	Natural	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 July 2020	Natural	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 July 2016	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 June 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	115 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 March 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 November 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	100 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

60 of 150 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gordon, the town this property stands in, in 150 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 97 hail, 36 thunderstorm wind, 11 tornado, 4 flash flood. 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
June 1997	Hail	Gordon	$750,000	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Gordon	$250,000	Thunderstorm winds in excess of 60 mph damaged roofs and blew a tree over which landed on a parked vehicle in the town of Gordon.
June 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Gordon	$100,000	A tornado formed 5 miles south southeast of Gordon at 1731MST in a corn field. It moved southeast for a path length of three quarters of a mile where a center irrigation pivot system was damaged and crop destroyed in the path. In addition, six power poles were pulled out of the ground and a tree line damaged before dissipating at 1739MST. The tornado was rated an EF0 with an average path width of .20 yards.
July 2007	Hail	Gordon	$35,000	The large hail caused damage to roofs, vehicles and corn and wheat crops.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	$24,000	Six power poles were downed with a total of 20 poles downed across northern Sheridan County.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	$20,000	Thunderstorm outflow winds uprooted and broke off numerous large trees, tore off part of the roof of the Local Pride packing plant, took down power lines, and damaged the siding and sign for the Ideal grocery store on the south side of Gordon.
August 2009	Hail	Gordon	$15,000	Golf ball size hail broke out all the windows on the north side of a home and caused roof damage.
July 2003	Hail	Gordon	$15,000	Hail severely damaged corn crops near the edge of Gordon.
May 2023	Flash Flood	Gordon	$10,000	Trained spotter reports 3.50 inches of rainfall in Gordon with some street flooding.
June 2001	Tornado (F0)	Gordon	$10,000	F0 tornado broke off a few utility poles as it passed through open rangeland.
August 2002	Hail	Gordon	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Gordon	$5,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Gordon	$4,000	no account filed
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	$2,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH, led to multiple tree limbs downed and a destroyed trampoline at this location.
August 2002	Hail	Gordon	$2,000	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Gordon	$1,000	Windshield broken on a spotter vehicle.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	$1,000	Thunderstorm outflow winds of 60 mph broke numerous large tree branches.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	$1,000	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Gordon	-	Delayed report from social media. Time estimated from radar.
August 2023	Hail	Gordon	-	Golf ball sized hail reported for 15 minutes with reports of leaf damage to many trees in the area.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Pea sized hail and wind gusts of 60 MPH reported at this location.
July 2023	Hail	Gordon	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail south of Gordon.
July 2023	Hail	Gordon	-	Gordon Fire Department measured 3 inch size hail 9 miles south of town.
July 2021	Hail	Gordon	-	A cooperative weather observer reported quarter size hail north of Gordon.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Trained spotter reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Estimated wind speed from trained storm spotter.
May 2020	Hail	Gordon	-	Dime to quarter sized hail reported at this location.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	KGRN measured 50 kt wind gust.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	KGRN measured a wind gust of 51 kts.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	No details.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	No details.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	No details.
July 2019	Hail	Gordon	-	Public reported up to half dollar size hail.
July 2019	Hail	Gordon	-	Public reported hail ranging from pea size up to tennis ball size. Most of the larger hail was around golf ball size.
July 2019	Hail	Gordon	-	Public reported quarter size hail and strong wind gusts.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Emergency manager reported a garage heavily damaged, power lines downed, and tree branches broken near Gordon.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 MPH at this location.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Public reported a 60 MPH wind gust at this location.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Estimated 60 mph winds with reports of power outages in Gordon.
June 2018	Hail	Gordon	-	Quarter to golf ball size hail reported at this location.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Three large trees down.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	No information available.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Power outages reported.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Gordon	-	Curb to curb flooding in Gordon.
April 2017	Funnel Cloud	Gordon	-	Funnel cloud was reported 8 miles east northeast of Gordon.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts near Gordon.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	A trained weather spotter reported 60 mph winds northwest of Gordon.
June 2016	Hail	Gordon	-	Hail reported on the west side of town near the golf course.
June 2016	Hail	Gordon	-	The hail destroyed a garden.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Fire department reported center pivots blown over and a roof blown off a garage from straight line winds.
July 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Gordon	-	Trained storm spotter observed and photographed tornado from Highway 20. The tornado touched down in an open field with no damage observed.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	A trained spotter estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2015	Hail	Gordon	-	A Cooperative observer located 6 miles north of Gordon reported quarter size hail with very little wind.
May 2015	Funnel Cloud	Gordon	-	Funnel reported east of Gordon at an estimated time of 2045MDT.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	General public located 3 miles east of Gordon reported nickel size hail with winds estimated at 60 mph produced crop damage.
June 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Gordon	-	At 1105MST, the Gordon Fire Department storm spotters reported that a tornado briefly touched down 3 miles southeast of Gordon. Spotters observed a tarp that was lifted and wrapped around a power pole (DI 26, DOD 1). Based on spotter observations, the average path width was 40 yards.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Half inch to nickel size hail accompanied strong winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts tore 4 inch branches off of trees.
June 2011	Hail	Gordon	-	Public reported quarter sized hail.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Gordon	-	Trees and powerlines down in Gordon.

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan County	All 8 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.