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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Webster County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Inavale Community Hall and Gymnasium
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 418 Minnesota Ave., Inavale, 68952
- When was it listed? March 2023
- Category. building
- Also known as. New Deal-era Resources in Nebraska MPS
- District. District 3
- National Register reference number. 100008680 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Inavale Community Hall and Gymnasium between 2015 and 2020, burning about 70 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 | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
42 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inavale, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 19 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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 | Inavale | $2,000,000 | A line of thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts up to 80 MPH moved across the county. Numerous power poles were downed in the Inavale, Red Cloud and Guide Rock areas. Power outages were also reported. Several trees, including ones large in diameter, were damage or uprooted. In Guide Rock, a garage was blown off its foundation partially onto a roadway. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Inavale | $500,000 | A tornado cut across Webster County shortly after sunset. The tornado caused damage at about half-dozen locations during its journey. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Inavale | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall caused the flooding of area creeks and the Republican River. Numerous rural roads and bridges were under water. The Republican River gauge near Guide Rock crested at 15.12 feet the afternoon of the 28th, and that was the 2nd highest crest on record. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Inavale | $75,000 | Hail ranged in size from quarter to ping pong balls. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | $50,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be at least 70 MPH. West of Red Cloud, hay bales were pushed onto a nearby county road. Several large trees were damaged or uprooted in Red Cloud. A tin roof was also damaged, and a few power poles on the north side of town were damaged, resulting in a loss of power. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Inavale | $50,000 | Numerous areas in Webster County picked up 3 to 4 inches of rain. This caused many rural roads to flood. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Inavale | $35,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Inavale | $30,000 | Thunderstorms moved northeast out of northern Kansas and into southern Nebraska and dumped several inches of rain in southern Webster County during the evening and nighttime hours. This caused several roads and small creeks to become flooded. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Inavale | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Inavale | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Flash Flood | Inavale | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | $5,000 | The emergency manager reported several broken tree branches and a broken flagpole. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Inavale | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Inavale | $2,000 | Living room window was broken out of one home. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH, resulting in zero visibility due to blowing dust. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles north-northeast of Inavale. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located seven miles north of Inavale. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Inavale | - | Hail ranging in size from quarters to golf balls was reported along and within a few miles either side of this path. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Inavale | - | Heavy rain fell across the northern half of Webster County, with the majority occurring between 9 PM and midnight. The highest measured amount by a mesonet station was 4.76 inches, located five miles north of Inavale. Numerous social media reports of 3-6 inches of rain came from areas in and near Bladen, as well as east-southeast of Campbell. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | A wind gust of 71 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles north-northeast of Inavale. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles west-southwest of Inavale. |
| May 2017 | Heavy Rain | Inavale | - | A total of 4.25 inches of rain had fallen since 6 PM CDT. |
| May 2017 | Heavy Rain | Inavale | - | A total of 4.25 inches of rain had fallen since 6 PM CDT. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | This was a peak gust measured at a home station. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH near the Franklin and Webster County line along Highway 136. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Inavale | - | This tornado touched down approximately 3 miles southwest of Inavale and caused no damage. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH, knocking a tree down onto Highway 136. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inavale | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Inavale | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Inavale | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Ducker House | 6.4 miles | 1982 |
 | Dr. Gilbert McKeeby House | 6.5 miles | 1982 |
 | St. Juliana Falconieri Catholic Church | 6.7 miles | 1981 |
 | Warner-Cather House | 6.7 miles | 1982 |
 | Miner House | 6.7 miles | 1982 |
 | First Baptist Church | 6.7 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008680 in Record Group 79. |
| Webster County | All 36 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.