St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, School and Grottoes

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“Assumption Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Dwight, Nebraska, within the David City deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln. It is noted for the Late Gothic Revival architecture of its 1914 parish church and related buildings on its campus located at 336 W.”
Wikipedia article St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, School and Grottoes, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2008 · category: District · built in 1914.

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, 3 objectss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 336 W. Pine St., Dwight, 68635
When was it listed? December 2008
Category. district
Township. Richardson township
When was it built? 1914
National Register reference number. 08001132 - 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

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, School and Grottoes between 2000 and 2017, burning about 121 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 May 2010	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 April 2009	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 March 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this property

21 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dwight, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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
April 2026	Hail	Dwight	-	Emergency management report of hail estimated at 1.75 inches in diameter with lots of quarter sized hail mixed in. Hail caused damage to vinyl siding.
April 2026	Hail	Dwight	-	Delayed report from emergency management of hail up to ping pong ball sized with wind-driven damage to windows and siding.
April 2026	Hail	Dwight	-	Trained spotter report of hail measured at 1.50 inches in diameter with corresponding photographs shared on social media.
April 2026	Hail	Dwight	-	Public report of hail estimated at 1.25 inches in diameter.
April 2026	Hail	Dwight	-	Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 2.00 inches in diameter.
April 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Dwight	-	Several trained spotters observed a tornado that began near the intersection of Highway 15 and Ashland Road. It moved to the north-northeast as a broad multiple vortex tornado, but the overall motion was observed to be relatively weak despite the tornado's width. The tornado snapped several trees and a road sign near the intersection of Highway 15 and 66. It continued nearly due north from that location with very little damage along an intermittent track, but it did overturn multiple center pivot irrigation systems. While the funnel was often not fully condensed, there was a rather persistent dust whirl below the base of the funnel all the way north to near Road 29 just east of Highway 15. Near the time of its demise, a second brief tornado developed just 1 mile to the east of this tornado. The peak winds in this tornado were estimated to be at 100 miles per hour. The tornado was estimated to be 200 yards across at its widest, with an average width of 100 yards during its lifespan.
June 2022	Hail	Dwight	-	Law enforcement reported 1-inch hail.
April 2022	Hail	Dwight	-	Public reported 1 inch hail via social media.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Dwight	-	Public reported flood county roads near Dwight.
May 2019	Hail	Dwight	-	The public reported hail dime to golf ball size.
May 2012	Hail	Dwight	-	Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell for several minutes southeast through northeast of Dwight.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dwight	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph downed trees and power lines near county roads 21, P and U southeast of Dwight. The winds were accompanied by hail that reached up to 1.5 inches in diameter.
June 2012	Hail	Dwight	-	Hail up to nickel-size was reported near Dwight.
June 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Dwight	-	This tornado was apparently embedded in a downburst or series of downbursts that caused damage from east of Ulysses through the Ceresco and Valparaiso areas in Saunders county. The tornado damaged a grain bin and trees when it initially touched down and caused other damage along its relatively narrow path. This tornado was from the same supercell thunderstorm that produced 2 earlier tornadoes near Ulysses.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dwight	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph knocked down some 2 inch in diameter tree limbs.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dwight	-	A trained spotter estimated that thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph in the Dwight area.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dwight	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Dwight	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed trees in Dwight.
May 2012	Hail	Dwight	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Dwight	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Dwight	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
	Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Depot	0.2 miles	1979
	Upper Oak Creek Descent Ruts of the Woodbury Cutoff, Ox Bow Trail of the California Road	4.0 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001132 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler County	All 10 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.