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One of 226 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Oft-Gordon House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 11523 156th St., Bennington, 68007
- When was it listed? March 2010
- Category. building
- Precinct. Jefferson precinct
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 10000080 - 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
93 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Oft-Gordon House between 2007 and 2020, burning about 525 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 | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 August 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2008 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
49 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bennington, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 28 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | $100,000 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | $10,000 | Pole barn leveled |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Mesonet measured wind gust of 63 mph. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Personal weather station measured wind gust of 64 mph. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bennington | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 2 in diameter. Report received via mPING. Delayed report with the time estimated from radar. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bennington | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter from an mPING report. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bennington | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bennington | - | Public report of hail measured up to 2.75 in diameter. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Personal weather station measured wind gust of 58 mph. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Bennington | - | Numerous hail reports were received to the office between Elkhorn and Bennington, Nebraska, extending northeast towards the Douglas-Washington County Line a few miles east of Bennington. Hail sizes were predominantly quarters, with golf ball sized hail reported 3 miles southwest of Bennington at 5:30 AM. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | The office received a public report of trees down 5 miles east of Bennington. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Bennington | - | An off-duty NWS employee reported half-dollar sized hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bennington | - | Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Bennington | - | NWS Employee reported 1- to 1.25-inch hail. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Bennington | - | Public reported 1-inch hail via social media. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Public reported minor damage to limbs and roofing due to a thunderstorm wind gust enhanced by a gustnado. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Public reported a 10-12 inch diameter limb snapped off a tree. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Bennington | - | Several videos posted to social media showing flowing water across several roads across the Omaha metro. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Spotters estimated wind gusts to 70 mph in the area. This resulted in some large limbs being blown down. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Bleachers were blown over by damaging thunderstorm winds at Bennington High School. |
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Bennington | - | A tornado touched down in a retention pond in the Waterford Subdivision. The tornado was observed by several storm chasers in the area. The damage survey team found little damage in the area. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Large tree limbs, 4 to 6 inch in diameter, blown down along Highway 36. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | The observer noted wind gusts to near 60 mph. Some small tree branches were noted down in the area. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Bennington | - | Trained spotters reported hail of around 1 inch in diameter, but posted on Twitter was a picture of hail up to 2.50 inches in diameter. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Bennington | - | Near 156th and Military. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Bennington | - | Hail that was near tennis ball-size was reported near Bennington. The hail was from the same supercell that produced the damaging hail in the Valley area a few minutes earlier. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated by a spotter at over 60 mph near Bennington. |
| June 2010 | Heavy Rain | Bennington | - | Heavy rain caused the Big Papillion Creek to rise to bank-full during the morning hours of June 5th. Six hour rainfall on automated gauges on the creek were as much as 4.25 inches in southern Washington county to around 2.5 inches at gauges in north central Douglas county near and east of Bennington. Omaha Eppley measured a little under 1.5 inches with the storms. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Bennington | - | The hail was accompanied by winds at least 40 to 50 mph. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Bennington | - | Reported near the Washington county line in the northwest part of Douglas county. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph knocked numerous large limbs and several trees down in the Bennington area. The fallen trees caused damage to a few homes and also closed a few roads temporarily. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew patio chairs into a window causing it to break and also blew a pontoon boat two houses down near Bennington. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured on a home weather station anemometer. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bennington State Bank | 0.2 miles | 2006 |
 | Carl Penke Farm | 1.2 miles | 2007 |
 | Ackerhurst-Eipperhurst Dairy Barn | 2.1 miles | 2002 |
| Lincoln Highway | 6.1 miles | 1987 | |
 | Elkhorn Town Hall | 7.0 miles | 2022 |
 | Lincoln Highway-Omaha to Elkhorn | 7.1 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000080 in Record Group 79. |
| Douglas County | All 226 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.