BlockFrom the record
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Howard County · listed in 2020 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- Address. 2450 17th Ave., Ashton, 68817
- When was it listed? November 2020
- Category. district
- Also known as. Rural Church Architecture in Nebraska MPS
- Precinct. Dannevirke precinct
- National Register reference number. 100005769 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
10 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and Cemetery between 2007 and 2020, burning about 256 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 November 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 October 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 162 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dannevirke Danish Lutheran Church and Community Hall | 3.2 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005769 in Record Group 79. |
| Howard 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.