Union Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1st and Rock St., Union, 68455
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. building
Precinct. Liberty precinct
National Register reference number. 06000605 - 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

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Union Jail between 2005 and 2018, burning about 305 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 April 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 April 2016	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Union Jail: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Becker Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Nehawka Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this property

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 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 2024	Funnel Cloud	Union	-	A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud to the west of Thurman. Strong rotation persisted even after the funnel cloud dissipated.
May 2023	Hail	Union	-	Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
May 2023	Hail	Union	-	Public reported 1-inch hail.
April 2023	Hail	Union	-	Trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Public sent photos of damage to a large metal outbuilding due to wind gusts.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Union	-	Public reported water running off of the fields and over Highway 34.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Mesonet observation report wind speed of 63 MPH.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A roof was blown off a building.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A personal weather station measured an 80 mph gust 3 miles east of Union.
May 2016	Flood	Union	-	Minor flooding was observed along the river to mainly agricultural land with a crest of 26.23 feet.
October 2013	Hail	Union	-	Storm chasers and spotters reported hail that ranged from ping pong ball to baseball size hail associated with a left-moving supercell tracking to the north northeast.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 70 mph blew debris across Highway 75 near Union.
August 2009	Hail	Union	-	Hail up to golf ball-size was reported along Highway 75 south of Union.
March 2007	Hail	Union	-	The public reported hail just under golf ball size near Union, relayed through emergency management.
May 2004	Hail	Union	-	Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell in the Union area.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 80 mph tore up large tree limbs west of Union. The winds were possibly the rear flank downdraft from a developing tornado that tracked from Nehawka to near Union.
April 1999	Flash Flood	Union	-	Around 7 inches of rain fell near Union causing Weeping Water Creek to go out of its banks and flood the intersection of highways 34 and 75. Nearly 2 feet of water was observed over that intersection at the highest.
July 1994	Hail	Union	-	Thunderstorm winds caused considerable damage at a farmstead. A dairy barn and other outbuildings were destroyed or heavily damaged. There was also some damage to crops.
May 2019	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Union	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Union	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
	Nehawka Public Library	3.7 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000605 in Record Group 79.
Cass County	All 26 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.
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.