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One of 5 National Register listings published here for Dixon County · listed in 2018 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Emerson City Park
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 objectss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Square block between 4th, 5th, Main & Logan Sts., Emerson, 68733
- When was it listed? March 2018
- Category. site
- Township. Emerson township
- National Register reference number. 100002165 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Emerson City Park between 2001 and 2013, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 July 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 April 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Winnebago Agency | BIA #424 |
Storms near this property
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emerson, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in power outages. Large trees downed by the winds blocked state highway 35. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous large branches down. |
| June 2003 | Lightning | Emerson | $5,000 | Lightning struck a house, starting a roof fire. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 6 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| April 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Emerson | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Emerson | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerson | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Emerson | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Emerson | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Salem Church | 7.0 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002165 in Record Group 79. |
| Dixon County | All 5 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.