St. Anselm's Catholic Church, Rectory and Parish Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“Anselm's Catholic Church, Rectory and Parish Hall in Anselmo, Nebraska are three separate structures that together form the St. The church, also known as The Cathedral of the Sandhills, was built in 1928-1929, along with the rectory; the parish hall was constructed in 1905 and served as the original church building.”
Wikipedia article St. Anselm's Catholic Church, Rectory and Parish Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 2008 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE 2, Anselmo, 68813
When was it listed? March 2008
Category. building
Township. Victoria township
National Register reference number. 08000170 - 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of St. Anselm's Catholic Church, Rectory and Parish Hall between 1999 and 2012, burning about 3,871 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 July 2012	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 October 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,830 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Storms near this property

60 of 107 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anselmo, the town this property stands in, in 107 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 77 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2019	Flood	Anselmo	$500,000	Custer county EM reports widespread flooding in Anselmo.
June 1997	Hail	Anselmo	$70,000	Large hail and thunderstorm winds damaged young growing corn and blew over center pivot irrigation systems.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Anselmo	$50,000	Emergency management reports flooding in Anselmo.
May 2005	Hail	Anselmo	$25,000	The hail, combined with estimated wind gusts of 52kts, damaged roofs and siding on homes and produced moderate body damage to vehicles.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	$15,000	Numerous trees uprooted and a large building damaged.
July 2000	Hail	Anselmo	$15,000	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Anselmo	$8,000	Rainfall of 2.25 inches in 45 minutes also occurred.
June 2009	Hail	Anselmo	$5,000	Rainfall of 1.30 inches accompanied the hail.
July 2007	Hail	Anselmo	$4,000	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	$3,000	The Custer County Emergency Manager reported a couple of broken power lines and numerous tree limbs down in Anselmo.
June 2009	Hail	Anselmo	$3,000	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Anselmo	$2,000	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Anselmo	$2,000	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Anselmo	$2,000	no account filed
May 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Anselmo	-	The tornado move to the northwest, causing extensive tree damage on the west side of Anselmo.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	A personal weather station southwest of Anselmo measured a 59 mph wind gust.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	A personal weather station near Anselmo recorded a 67 mph wind gust.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	Law enforcement estimated 90 mph winds along Highway 2 near Anselmo with multiple trees downed.
March 2019	Flood	Anselmo	-	The NDOR reported flooding along several stretches between Anselmo and the end of Highway 21A, 6 miles east of Anselmo.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	Reported by cooperative observer.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Anselmo	-	A trained spotter reported numerous roads and yards covered with water in Anselmo.
August 2017	Hail	Anselmo	-	Hail up to the size of ping pong balls covered the ground at this location.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Anselmo	-	Streets flooded in Anselmo and ditches full of water along highway 2.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Anselmo	-	Highway 2 closed northwest of Anselmo due to water across the roadway.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Anselmo	-	Water covering approximately 1000 Feet of county road 812.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Anselmo	-	Water reported over highway 2, 5 miles northwest of Merna.
August 2015	Hail	Anselmo	-	Hail covered the ground and wind gusts were estimated at 30 to 40 mph.
September 2014	Hail	Anselmo	-	Dime size hail and 50 mile per hour winds were observed with the passing storm.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Anselmo	-	Heavy rain fell in the Anselmo area between 5:00 p.m. CST and 6:00 p.m. CST, with 1.75 inches being measured in that time. Heavy rain fell across other parts of Custer County as thunderstorms passed, with additional reports including 2.25 inches 7 miles west northwest of Merna, 2.22 inches 7 miles southwest of Ansley, and 1.80 inches 3 miles south southwest of Callaway.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	Public reported 60 mile per hour winds and pea size hail as storm moved through.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	Damaging winds of 60 miles per hour were observed as the thunderstorm passed.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
April 2012	Funnel Cloud	Anselmo	-	A funnel cloud extended more than half way from the cloud base to the ground. The area was also receiving golf ball size hail.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	The cooperative weather observer reported 4 inch tree branches broken and a corral fence blown down.
July 2009	Hail	Anselmo	-	Large hail and strong wind gusts stripped corn in area fields. Very heavy rain also occurred.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	The thunderstorm outflow winds broke off 9 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	Pea sized hail accompanied the 60 mph wind gust associated with the thunderstorms.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	Strong thunderstorm outflow winds broke off numerous large tree branches.
March 2005	Hail	Anselmo	-	Hail was 2 inches deep.
March 2005	Hail	Anselmo	-	Hail covered the ground.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	Thunderstorm winds broke off eight inch diameter tree limbs.
May 2000	Hail	Anselmo	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 miles per hour.
June 1999	Hail	Anselmo	-	A severe thunderstorm developed in northwest Custer County and first produced 0.75 inch hail 13 miles northwest of Anselmo. By the time it was southwest of Anselmo, the hail was 1.00 inch in diameter.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
June 2024	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Anselmo	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
October 2023	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Anselmo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Custer 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000170 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Custer County	All 14 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.