First Commercial Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The First Commercial Bank in Odell, Nebraska, also known as Old West Trails Center and located at 301 Main Street, is a historic building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”
Wikipedia article First Commercial Bank (Odell, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Gage County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 301 Main St., Odell, 68415
When was it listed? November 2007
Category. building
Township. Paddock township
National Register reference number. 07001190 - 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

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of First Commercial Bank between 2001 and 2011, burning about 44 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 March 2001	Smoking	1.5 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 March 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 March 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
14 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 February 2011	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 November 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Gage County

Storms near this property

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odell, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 26 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
September 2001	Tornado (F1)	Odell	$60,000	A tornado tracked from southwest of Odell to just east of town near highway 8. The tornado struck a farmstead heavily damaging 6 outbuildings and a cottonwood and cedar tree shelterbelt. The damage path was reported to a Beatrice newspaper by the Gage county Emergency Manager.
April 2024	Hail	Odell	-	The office received several reports of hail from trained spotters in the Odell area. Hail stones range from quarter to golf ball-sized with this storm.
August 2024	Hail	Odell	-	A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
May 2019	Hail	Odell	-	Hail reported in Odell.
May 2019	Hail	Odell	-	Reported in Odell.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Odell	-	A trained spotter estimated winds between 50 and 60 mph.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Odell	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph destroyed a large machine shed which briefly blocked Highway 77. Some tree and power line damage was also reported in the region.
August 2010	Hail	Odell	-	The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph that flattened corn in the area.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Odell	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph flattened corn in the area and was accompanied by 1 inch hail.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Odell	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed 4 inch diameter tree limbs.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Odell	-	A brief tornado touchdown was observed south of Odell and caused no apparent damage. The tornado, or funnel before it touched down, had two vorticies for a while.
June 2009	Hail	Odell	-	Hail up to baseball-size and even a few maybe up to softball-size fell from west of Odell across the south part of town and then to 2 miles south of town. The hail caused house and automobile damage in and around town. Some crop and tree damage was also reported. The hail was driven by winds that were estimated to be at least 50 mph.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Odell	-	This tornado tracked out of Washington county Kansas and dissipated shortly after entering Gage county near State Line Road 3 miles south and 1/2 mile west of Odell. The tornado was an fo in Gage county and did some tree damage before it lifted. In Kansas the track of this tornado was 17 miles, the width of damage at its widest was around 1/4 mile and it did f2 damage near Hanover.
April 2006	Hail	Odell	-	This was from the same thunderstorm cell that produced the tornado south of town. The storm also dropped 1.5 inches of rain in less than 1 hour.
April 2005	Hail	Odell	-	Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell in and just west of Odell.
April 2005	Hail	Odell	-	The hail covered Highway 8 and the resultant slick roads caused a few accidents.
June 2005	Hail	Odell	-	Hail up to baseball size was reported in Odell. The hail caused house and car damage in town.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Odell	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed large tree limbs near Odell.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Odell	-	Winds over 60 mph severely damaged old outbuildings near Odell.
May 1993	Hail	Odell	-	Hail began small then increased to golf ball-size. Hail covered the ground in drifts, and drifts were still present the following morning. As the hail ended, a funnel cloud was sighted.
May 2015	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Odell	-	no account filed
May 1993	Hail	Odell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gage 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
	Big Indian Creek Bridge	4.9 miles	1992
	Bridge	7.1 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001190 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gage County	All 30 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.