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Glenvil Fire Hall and Town Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Blk. 6, Lot 19 Winters Ave., Glenvil, 68941
  • When was it listed? July 2022
  • Category. building
  • Township. Glenvil township
  • National Register reference number. 100007937 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Glenvil Fire Hall and Town Jail between 1994 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 1994Smoking1.0 acresRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictTHEESON
28 March 1994Debris and open burning5.0 acresRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictMCMURTREY
27 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

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

2 within 8 miles

Other 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Glenville School0.1 miles1998
Inland School6.4 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100007937 in Record Group 79.
Clay CountyAll 10 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.