BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Merrick County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Clarksville Township Carnegie Library
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 108 West Amity St., Clarks, 68628
- When was it listed? February 2021
- Category. building
- Also known as. Carnegie Libraries in Nebraska MPS
- Township. Clarksville township
- National Register reference number. 100006194 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
25 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Clarksville Township Carnegie Library between 2003 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 June 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 June 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2012 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
33 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarks, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 20 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | $1,000,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be as high as 80 MPH. Along this path, an old grain elevator was destroyed, large trees branches were blown down, irrigation pivots were overturned, and a couple of power poles were broken. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Clarks | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Clarks | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flooding of area creeks across Merrick County, including the Prairie and Silver Creeks. Numerous rural roads and bridges were under water. Due to the flooding of the Silver Creek, there were voluntary home evacuations on the west-southwest side of the town of Silver Creek. Prairie Creek crested at 9.52 feet in the mid-morning hours of May 29th, and that was the 4th highest crest on record. Silver Creek crested at 9.65 feet the morning of May 29th, and that was a new record crest. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Clarks | $100,000 | Hail up to the size of ping pong balls fell for 10 minutes. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Clarks | $100,000 | Not only did large hail fall, but 60 mph winds were noted as well. Six inch diameter tree limbs were broken. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Clarks | $50,000 | Golf ball size hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 50 MPH. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Clarks | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Clarks | $50,000 | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Clarks | $30,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Clarks | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Flood | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Flood | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Flood | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Clarks | - | 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 100006194 in Record Group 79. |
| Merrick County | All 8 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.