Moses Merrill Baptist Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Moses Merrill Baptist Camp, near Fullerton, Nebraska, is a historic site dating to 1942. Also known as Broken Arrow Wilderness Area and Camp and denoted as NeHBS#NC00-002, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Moses Merrill Baptist Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Nance County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Merrill, Moses, Baptist Camp - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NW of Fullerton, Fullerton, 68638
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. district
Township. Fullerton township
National Register reference number. 04000295 - 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Moses Merrill Baptist Camp between 2005 and 2009, burning about 13 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	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
20 April 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 March 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 March 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Nance County

Storms near this property

60 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fullerton, the town this property stands in, in 94 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 55 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 8 tornado, 2 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
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$500,000	Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in flipped irrigation pivots in eastern Nance County.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$150,000	no account filed
October 2000	Tornado (F1)	Fullerton	$125,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$100,000	Several trees, including one 18 inches in diameter, were damaged and a roof was blown off of a building in the Fullerton. Tree damage was also reported in the Belgrade area.
October 2001	Tornado (F1)	Fullerton	$75,000	Tornado entered Nance County from Merrick County.
May 2012	Hail	Fullerton	$75,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$75,000	no account filed
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$50,000	Wind gusts were estimated between 50 and 60 MPH in the Fullerton area. Tree damage was reported in Fullerton, with 1 vehicle damaged when tree limbs were blown down.
May 2008	Flash Flood	Fullerton	$50,000	Thunderstorms rolled across southeast Nance County during the evening and nighttime hours and dumped several inches of rain. This caused roads and small creeks to quickly flood.
June 2003	Hail	Fullerton	$50,000	A narrow swath of crop damage from southwest of Fullerton to south of Fullerton produced widespread corn and soybean damage.
May 2025	Hail	Fullerton	$50,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Fullerton	$50,000	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Fullerton	$50,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Fullerton	$40,000	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Fullerton	$40,000	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Fullerton	$40,000	no account filed
May 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Fullerton	$25,000	This EF1 rated tornado started in extreme eastern Howard County and ended in extreme southern Nance County, with most of its time spent in Merrick County north-northeast of Palmer. There were several spots of tree damage along its roughly 7 mile path. The most significant damage was to an outbuilding and large cottonwood trees northeast of Palmer. The estimated peak wind speed of 95 MPH was estimated based upon the damage at this particular farmstead.
June 2014	Hail	Fullerton	$25,000	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Fullerton	$25,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$25,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$25,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$25,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$25,000	no account filed
June 2008	Flash Flood	Fullerton	$20,000	At 720CST water from Plum Creek was running across highway 22 between Fullerton and Genoa.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$20,000	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$20,000	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$20,000	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Fullerton	$15,000	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Fullerton	$15,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$15,000	no account filed
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$10,000	Report received from Twitter showed a shed with roof loss and a small outbuilding damaged one mile north of Fullerton. A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles west-northwest of Fullerton.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$10,000	Shingles reported blown off shed with doors blown open.
October 2000	Tornado (F0)	Fullerton	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Fullerton	$10,000	no account filed
October 2001	Tornado (F0)	Fullerton	$5,000	A brief tornado that caused some minor damage.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$5,000	no account filed
October 2000	Hail	Fullerton	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	$5,000	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Fullerton	$5,000	no account filed
October 2000	Hail	Fullerton	$2,000	no account filed
June 2000	Tornado (F0)	Fullerton	$2,000	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	-	Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some minor tree damage in Fullerton.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	-	A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located eight miles north-northeast of Palmer.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	-	A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 8 miles north-northeast of Palmer.
June 2018	Heavy Rain	Fullerton	-	A 24-hour rain total of 4.03 inches occurred three miles northwest of Fullerton. This report is from an automated gauge along the Cedar River.
August 2017	Hail	Fullerton	-	A slowly moving severe thunderstorm dropped hail ranging in size from quarters to baseballs in the Fullerton area.
September 2016	Heavy Rain	Fullerton	-	Rainfall total from the past 24 hours was 5.02 inches.
June 2014	Hail	Fullerton	-	Penny to nickel size hail was reported.
June 2014	Hail	Fullerton	-	Delete me.
June 2013	Hail	Fullerton	-	Quarter sized hail was reported near Plum Creek Bridge.
April 2013	Hail	Fullerton	-	Hail the size of peas to quarters was completely covering the ground.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	-	Winds estimated at 60 mph, with broken tree limbs reported.
July 2003	Tornado (F0)	Fullerton	-	A brief tornado touched down west of Fullerton.
October 2001	Tornado (F0)	Fullerton	-	Brief touchdown of a weak tornado south of Fullerton.
September 2023	Hail	Fullerton	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Fullerton	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Fullerton	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Fullerton	-	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fullerton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nance 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
	Evangelical United Brethren Church	1.6 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000295 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nance County	All 3 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.