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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Harlan County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Alma 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. 111 North John St., Alma, 68920
- When was it listed? November 2021
- Category. building
- Also known as. Carnegie Libraries in Nebraska MPS
- City. Alma city
- National Register reference number. 100007149 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
16 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Alma Carnegie Library between 2007 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 1 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 | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 March 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
47 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alma, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 28 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 heavy rain. 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $2,000,000 | The line of thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts up near 80 MPH continued into Harlan County. Damage was reported in the Alma, Republican City and Harlan County Dam areas. Large tree limbs near 8 to 12 inches in diameter were downed. On the south side of Harlan County Lake near Patterson Harbor, a shelter and dock for multiple boats were damaged and at least 4 boats were rammed onto the shore. A camping trailer was blown over onto a vehicle. In Republican City, another trailer with a pontoon boat was blown onto its side. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $60,000 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $50,000 | Wind damage was reported in Alma, including downed tree limbs, some shingle and roof damage, power lines downed, and small outbuilding damage. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $25,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to be 60 to 70 mph in Alma, along with very heavy rain. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Alma | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $15,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph knocked down several trees. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $10,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in tree damage in Alma, including several large downed limbs. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Alma | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | $5,000 | Two trees were reported blown down in Alma. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Alma | $5,000 | Heavy rain and pea to quarter size hail causing visibility near zero. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Alma | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Alma | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles north-northwest of Alma. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Alma | - | Hail up to the size of half dollars was reported in the area. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Alma | - | Ping pong ball to golf ball size hail was reported. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Alma | - | As captured by storm chaser video, this tornado briefly touched down in open country approximately six miles southwest of Alma. No damage was reported. |
| April 2022 | Heavy Rain | Alma | - | Unofficial mesonet reported 3.96 of rain during this 4-hour period. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Alma | - | An unofficial personal weather station measured 4.76 of rain between 5 p.m. and midnight CDT. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | - | A wind gust of 62 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 2 miles north-northwest of Alma. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Alma | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.20 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Alma | - | A tornado was reported by a storm chaser. It was down only briefly. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Alma | - | A tornado touched down briefly just south of Alma. Funnel clouds were also noted. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| October 2023 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Alma | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Alma | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Alma City Auditorium and Sale Barn | 0.2 miles | 2014 |
| Cordelia Bennett Preston Memorial Library | 5.3 miles | 2021 | |
| Hotel Orleans | 5.3 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007149 in Record Group 79. |
| Harlan County | All 7 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.