BlockFrom the record
One of 110 National Register listings published here for Lancaster County · listed in 2004 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Herter Farmstead (Boundary Increase)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- Address. 4949 S. 148th St., Walton, 68461
- When was it listed? July 2004
- Category. district
- Precinct. Stockton precinct
- National Register reference number. 04000750 - 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
34 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Herter Farmstead (Boundary Increase) between 2007 and 2020, burning about 289 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 | 27 |
| 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 |
Storms near this property
8 since 2009Regional 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 |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Herter Farmstead | 0.2 miles | 2000 |
| Lincoln Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District | 5.9 miles | 2012 | |
| Park Manor Residential Historic District | 6.2 miles | 2013 | |
| Eastridge Historic District | 6.6 miles | 2017 | |
 | College View Public Library | 6.8 miles | 1984 |
 | Christian Record Building | 6.8 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04000750 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.