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One of 4 National Register listings published here for Perkins County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Venango Public School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 201 E Washington St., Venango, 69168
- When was it listed? March 2018
- Category. building
- Also known as. School Buildings in Nebraska MPS
- District. District 3
- Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 100002170 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Venango Public School between 2003 and 2017, burning about 45 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 | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
60 of 63 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venango, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 42 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Venango | $350,000 | Nearly stationary thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall of 4 to 10 inches causing water to flow over roadways mainly west and south of Grant. Water flowed across Highway 23 west of Grant and across numerous secondary roads. Highways were closed and travel was discouraged for much of the county. One home around the Grant Golf Course was inundated with water while many others were saved by sandbags. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Venango | $150,000 | Heavy rainfall occurred on already saturated ground causing additional flash flooding. Roads were washed out in the Kitty Heights area. The railroad tracks west of Grant were under water. Also, the county fairgrounds in Grant were under 2-4 feet of water. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Venango | $50,000 | Heavy rain resulted in three feet of water covering some streets in Venango. Law enforcement reports damage to some residences. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $40,000 | Wind damage caused numerous trees down. Tree also down on car. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $15,000 | Law enforcement reports numerous power lines down just north of Venango. A quonset was also damaged just north of Venango. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $10,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH damaged siding and roof on a a house as well as crop damage reported at this location. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Venango | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Venango | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $5,000 | A powerline was reported down in Venango. Winds estimated at 70 MPH. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Venango | $5,000 | The hail was accompanied by strong winds and damaged many trees. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Venango | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Venango | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Venango | $4,000 | A trained fire department spotter reported an estimated 50 mph winds occurring with the hail. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Venango | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Venango | $4,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Venango | $1,000 | Sky light in home broken, and wheat crop severely damaged. |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Venango | $1,000 | The tornado touched down only briefly in open rangeland. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew large tree limbs down. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Venango | - | Spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail at this location. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Venango | - | Quarter sized hail and high winds were reported at this location. |
| July 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Venango | - | Trained weather spotters reported a brief landspout tornado over open range. No damage was found. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | Public reported an uprooted tree at this location. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Venango | - | A retired NWS employee witnessed a brief tornado embedded in rain 5 miles west southwest of Brandon. The tornado was visible for less than one minute. No damage was reported. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | No significant damage reported from the wind gust. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph occurred in Venango. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Venango | - | Small tree branches were also downed. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | Dime size hail was also reported. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | No major damage was reported from this wind gust. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Venango | - | Hail covered the ground with the largest stones the size of golf balls. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Venango | - | Ping pong and golf ball size hail fell in Venango, while quarter size hail fell 10 miles east of Venango. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Venango | - | The tornado touched down and remained in open fields north of Venango. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Venango | - | The tornado traveled over open country south of Venango into northern Chase county or 7 miles north of Lamar. The weak tornado did little if any damage. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Venango | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Venango | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002170 in Record Group 79. |
| Perkins County | All 4 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.