Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Depot is a historic train station on South Main Street in Plainview, Pierce County, Nebraska. Built in 1880, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article Plainview station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.05001291- 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
13 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Depot
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 19 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
8
Smoking
2
Fireworks
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Depot: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Plainview, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 16 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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.
The North Fork Elkhorn River rose above flood stage for 65 hours. The river crested at 13.36 feet, flood stage is 12 feet. Several county roads near the river flooded.
Emergency manager reported a couple of small sheds destroyed and power lines down. Several grain bins were collapsed from the top and sides. Also reported roof and fence damage.
This is for flooding along the North Fork Elkhorn River. The river gage near Pierce, operated by the USGS, peaked at 17.34 feet at 2 am on March 14th. Minor flood stage is 12 feet, moderate flood stage is 14 feet while major flood stage is 16 feet. Preliminary this peak is the highest on record. The town of Pierce was saved by their levee which never overtopped or breached. Despite this portions of the town had 2 to 3 feet of water.
Rainfall of around 3 inches in several hours across parts of Pierce county caused flash flooding around the Plainview area. Standing water was still across a local baseball field the next morning.
Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph or greater that lasted for 10 or 15 minutes uprooted 50 to 60 trees southwest of Plainview and toppled an outbuilding. Trees, power lines and signs were downed in Plainview as well, causing some building and vehicle damage throughout the area.
Hail, mostly dime size, was driven by strong winds causing a path of crop damage from just north through east of Plainview. Some damaged crops were also observed south of town.
A tornado briefly touched down northeast of Plainview. Pierce County Pierce Osmond,25,1635CST,,,0,0,?,?,Thunderstorm Winds (G61) Two tractor semi-trailers with empty livestock trailers were blown over resulting in a total loss of the truck tractors. Two county buildings and a nearby garage were damaged. Center pivot irrigation systems were also twisted and blown over.
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
2 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.
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.
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