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One of 27 National Register listings published here for Otoe County · listed in 2021 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Palmyra Pioneer Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Jct. of Giles and North 10th Rds., Palmyra, 68418
- When was it listed? November 2021
- Category. site
- Precinct. South Palmyra precinct
- National Register reference number. 100007151 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
17 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Palmyra Pioneer Cemetery between 2007 and 2020, burning about 139 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 | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
50 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmyra, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 30 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Palmyra | $20,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | $1,000 | Large trees down on power lines. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Palmyra | - | Emergency manager reported 1.75-inch hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Palmyra | - | Public reported 1-inch hail via Mping. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Palmyra | - | Emergency manager reported 1.75-inch hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Palmyra | - | Public reported 1.25-inch hail via Mping. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Palmyra | - | Emergency manager reported flooding on county roads. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Palmyra | - | Emergency Manager reported water over the roadway and a large amount of low land flooding. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Public reported broken tree limbs. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Utility company reported tree and power line damage in the Palmyra area, including some broken power poles. |
| June 2020 | Flood | Palmyra | - | Report from public via mping of water over the road way. |
| August 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Palmyra | - | A weak rope funnel formed west-southwest of Palmyra. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Trees were reported blown down. The size of the trees was not given. |
| October 2013 | Tornado (EF2) | Palmyra | - | This tornado initially touched down in Lancaster County where EF2 damage was produced. The tornado crossed in Otoe County around 2 miles east of Bennet. The tornado continued to around 1 mile northwest of Palmyra before lifting. The tornado produced damage consistent with EF2 as it crossed highway 20 to the west of Palmyra to farmsteads. |
| March 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Palmyra | - | This is the third and longest tracked of 5 cyclic tornadoes that a low-topped supercell thunderstorm produced at it tracked southeast through east of the Lincoln. This tornado touched down around 2.5 miles west of Bennet, in Lancaster county, tracked northeast clipping the far northwest corner of Otoe county and then lifted around 1.5 miles into the southwest corner of Cass county. In Otoe county the tornado caused tree and farm outbuilding damage. In Cass county the tornado destroyed a garage and tossed the debris into a occupied car injuring 5 people. The total path length was around 11 miles. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Palmyra | - | An isolated report of 4 inches of rain was also received in this area. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Palmyra | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding across State Spur 66 north of Douglas. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph uprooted century-old trees and knocked down other large limbs damaging perhaps half the houses in Palmyra. This prompted the community board chairwoman to state that it was the worst tree damage she had seen in the 22 years she had been there. The winds also blew a truck off the road near town. Half inch hail was also reported from the storm. Tree and other damage was reported from Palmyra to near Unadilla where a farm outbuilding was destroyed when it was lifted up and thrown atop a house causing damage to the house as well. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Palmyra | - | Hail up to golfball-size was reported from 2 miles west of Palmyra into Palmyra. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Palmyra | - | Hail fell for around 10 minutes from Palmyra to a few miles east of town. The hail covered the ground and was as large as golfball size. Some crop damage was noted in the area. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew the roof off of a machine shed. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Palmyra | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported in and just southwest of Palmyra. The hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph in Palmyra. The winds were accompanied by hail up to 1 inch in diameter. |
| February 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Estimated thunderstorm wind gusts over 60 mph uprooted a couple of 15 to 20 year old trees. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Palmyra | - | Rainfall of 1 to 2.5 inches fell in a hour or two over much of Otoe county. This caused local areas of flash flooding south of Palmyra where 8 inches of water was reported briefly over road 66A (Douglas Spur) and also near Paul where several inches of water crossed highway 128. |
| September 2018 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Palmyra | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unadilla Main Street Historic District | 5.1 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007151 in Record Group 79. |
| Otoe County | All 27 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.