Alliance Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Alliance Commercial Historic District, located roughly along Box Butte Ave. in Alliance, Nebraska is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It includes Romanesque and Mission/Spanish Revival architecture amidst its 44 contributing buildings over 17.4 acres (7.0 ha).”
Wikipedia article Alliance Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Box Butte County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly along Box Butte Ave., Alliance, 69301
When was it listed? March 2007
Category. district
Precinct. Eleven precinct
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 07000180 - 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

73 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Alliance Commercial Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Fireworks	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 August 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 August 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Box Butte County

Storms near this property

60 of 189 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alliance, the town this property stands in, in 189 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 136 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 4 funnel cloud. 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 1996	Hail	Alliance	$200,000	no account filed
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$50,000	Farm received strong to severe winds for an hour causing structural damage.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$50,000	Roofs torn off 1 mobile home and 1 apartment complex; at least 2 cars damaged by fallen limbs; power lines downed; 1 camper flipped; trees uprooted; 3' diameter maple tree thrown onto roof of house; 6' wooden fence downed.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$40,000	Power poles down in western part of town. General Manager of PREMA said the storm took out roughly 40 electrical poles around the area. The downed poles caused roughly 1,000 PREMA electrical services to be stopped across the county.
August 2004	Hail	Alliance	$40,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Alliance	$30,000	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Alliance	$25,000	1.75 inch hail fell over the southwest side of Alliance, NE.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$20,000	A thunderstorm produced a microburst in Alliance which uprooted trees at a residence home and the owners vehicle was damaged by falling trees. Damage to power poles also occurred in Alliance.
March 1998	Lightning	Alliance	$12,000	A bolt of lightning hit a tree around which a porch of a house was built. All of the windows in the porch were shattered. The bolt also damaged the adjoining kitchen, bathroom and an antique collection. The homeowners stated that the biggest loss was all of thier antiques.
August 2004	Hail	Alliance	$10,000	2 inch diamter hail broke windows from 3 to 7 miles northeast of Alliance, Ne.
June 1997	Hail	Alliance	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Lightning	Alliance	$5,000	Lightning caused two power outages and transformer failures in Alliance.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds up to 62 mph knocked down 2 power poles 8 miles south-southwest of Alliance. The poles were broke off at ground level and caused a brief power outage for customers in the immediate area.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$4,000	Tin blown off roof of garage.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$4,000	Estimated wind gusts around 60 mph. Unconfirmed tornado uprooted trees andremoved a well-house roof. Storage shed also destroyed.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$3,000	A 100 year old cottonwood tree fell in Central Park.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	$1,100	Shingles blown off of house and 6 to 8 inch tree limbs down.
June 2025	Hail	Alliance	-	Mainly dime to nickel size hail with a few quarters reported northeast of Alliance Nebraska.
June 2024	Hail	Alliance	-	A trained weather spotter reported nickel sized hail 5 miles W of Alliance.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	An 81 MPH wind gust was measured at the Alliance Airport ASOS.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Alliance	-	Flash flooding was observed in the city of Alliance. Law enforcement reported that a vehicle was washed off the road. The occupants were able to safely exit the vehicle.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Trained spotter reported estimated winds.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Tin shed (8-by-10 foot) blown across yard by strong winds. Pea sized hail reported with accumulations around 6 inches.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Davis station measured wind gust.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Multiple 3 to 4 inch diameter trees uprooted in town.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Thunderstorm winds measured by a KNEB automated weather station.
August 2018	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was observed at Alliance.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was observed west of Alliance.
June 2018	Hail	Alliance	-	Measured hail reported at the intersection of West 10th Street and Buffalo Avenue in Alliance.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Widespread power outages were reported due to knocked over powerlines in addition to uprooted trees.
June 2017	Hail	Alliance	-	Tennis ball to baseball size hail was reported at Alliance.
June 2017	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was reported on Kansas Street in southwest Alliance.
August 2017	Hail	Alliance	-	Golf ball size hail was observed northeast of Alliance.
August 2017	Hail	Alliance	-	Golf ball size hail was observed northwest of Alliance.
August 2017	Hail	Alliance	-	Half dollar size hail covered Highway 385 south of Alliance.
July 2017	Hail	Alliance	-	Golf ball size hail was observed at Alliance.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Estimated 80 mph wind gusts were observed at Alliance.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Estimated wind gusts of 70 mph were reported 10 miles north of Alliance.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported northwest of Alliance.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported at Alliance.
June 2016	Hail	Alliance	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported 15 miles north of Alliance.
June 2016	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was reported near the Alliance Airport.
July 2016	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was reported two miles west of Alliance.
October 2016	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was reported two miles north of Alliance.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Alliance	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 65 mph 15 miles northwest of the Alliance Airport. Utility lines were down and power was out for several hours.
June 2015	Hail	Alliance	-	Golf ball size hail was observed seven miles northeast of Alliance.
June 2015	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported at Alliance.
June 2015	Hail	Alliance	-	Golf ball size hail was reported three miles northeast of Alliance. Garage and basement windows were broken.
June 2015	Hail	Alliance	-	Golf ball size hail was observed five miles north-northeast of Alliance.
June 2015	Hail	Alliance	-	Softball size hail was observed six miles northeast of Alliance.
June 2015	Hail	Alliance	-	Pea to golf ball size hail was reported four miles north of Alliance.
May 2015	Hail	Alliance	-	Dime to quarter size hail was observed in Alliance.
July 2015	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was observed ten miles southeast of Alliance.
May 2014	Funnel Cloud	Alliance	-	A funnel cloud was sighted east of Kilpatrick Lake.
May 2014	Funnel Cloud	Alliance	-	Spotter observed a rotating wall cloud with a funnel rising and lowering.
May 2014	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was reported west of Alliance.
May 2014	Hail	Alliance	-	Ping pong ball size hail was observed north of Alliance.
May 2014	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was reported northeast of Alliance.
June 2014	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was observed west of Alliance.
June 2014	Hail	Alliance	-	Quarter size hail was observed in Alliance.

Every storm recorded in Box Butte 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Box Butte County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1990
	City of Alliance Central Park Fountain	0.5 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000180 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Box Butte 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.