BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ohiowa Public School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 202 S. Main St., Ohiowa, 68416
- When was it listed? July 2005
- Category. building
- Also known as. School Buildings in Nebraska MPS
- Township. Franklin township
- National Register reference number. 05000725 - 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
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ohiowa Public School between 2000 and 2018, 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 May 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 October 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
50 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ohiowa, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 6 heavy rain, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Hail | Ohiowa | $750,000 | Minor damage also occurred to crops. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ohiowa | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Ohiowa | $100,000 | A tornado that exited Thayer county moved across a part of southeast Fillmore county. The tornado struck one farmstead and dislodged the house from its foundation. It also damaged several outbuildings. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Ohiowa | $100,000 | A pair of tornadoes was reported just northeast of the old Bruning airfield. The first tornado traveled north and struck one farmstead and dislodged the house from its foundation. The owner of property withstood the first tornado only to see the second tornado pass just southeast of his house. The second tornado hit another farmstead just to the east and damaged several outbuildings. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $50,000 | Emergency Manager reportes some power poles bent over causing power outages as well as major tree damage in town. Winds caused debris from fields to hit a nearby house. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Ohiowa | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Ohiowa | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ohiowa | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ohiowa | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ohiowa | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $5,000 | Railroad cars blown down the track. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | Gusts between 61 and 72 MPH were measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Ohiowa. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Ohiowa. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH by emergency management in Milligan. A 66 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Ohiowa and a wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet state located four miles west of Milligan. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 3 miles south of Ohiowa. |
| October 2019 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | A 24-hour rainfall total of 4.65 inches occurred 4 miles east of Ohiowa. Most of this rain fell before 8 pm CDT on Oct. 1st. |
| September 2018 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | A multi-day rainfall total of 6.32 was reported 2 miles northwest of Ohiowa. |
| October 2016 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | A daily rainfall total of 3.17 inches was reported from separate rounds of morning and afternoon thunderstorms. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 6.40 inches was reported. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | Dime to quarter size hail was reported. |
| April 2012 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | Storm total precipitation of 3.70 inches was reported. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.66 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | Thunderstorm winds and golf ball-size hail caused considerable damage in Ohiowa. Trees were uprooted, a mobile home was pushed off of its foundation, hail broke windows and punched holes in siding. Several buildings were destroyed including a barn, a farrowing house and a pump house. Unofficial reports of 4.50 inches of rain were received. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | Thunderstorm winds and golf ball-size hail caused considerable damage in Ohiowa. Trees were uprooted, a mobile home was pushed off of its foundation, hail broke windows and punched holes in siding. Several buildings were destroyed including a barn, a farrowing house and a pump house. Unofficial reports of 4.50 inches of rain were received. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Maple Grove Sales Pavilion and Farrowing Barn | 4.4 miles | 2009 |
 | Strang School District No. 36 | 7.0 miles | 1992 |
 | Belle Prairie Township Hall & Strang Town Hall-Jail | 7.0 miles | 1991 |
 | Cesko-narodni sin-Milligan Auditorium | 7.1 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05000725 in Record Group 79. |
| Fillmore County | All 20 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.