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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Buffalo County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Shelton Public Library
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 313 C St., Shelton, 68876
- When was it listed? October 2024
- Category. building
- Also known as. Carnegie Libraries in Nebraska MPS
- Precinct. Precinct 24
- National Register reference number. 100010940 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
19 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Shelton Public Library between 2007 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 2 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2012 | Natural | 54 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | BROOKS TRACT |
| 9 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 May 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 April 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 41 acres | Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District | HANNON POLE FIRE |
Storms near this property
38 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelton, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 17 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Shelton | $2,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Shelton | $1,000,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported at the Shelton exit of Interstate 80. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Shelton | $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | $250,000 | Wind gusts of 65 to 75 mph were reported. Reports included damage to power lines and transformers, large branches down, metal building and billboard destroyed. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Shelton | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Shelton | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Shelton | $100,000 | Hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Shelton | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Shelton | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Shelton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Shelton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Shelton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Shelton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | $15,000 | Severe wind gusts occurred along a line of outflow well ahead and south of a line of thunderstorms to the north. A power line was down from a fallen tree in the community of Shelton. The Buffalo County Emergency Manager estimated the wind gust at 60 MPH. The emergency manager also reported an accident just south on Interstate 80 that was possibly weather related. A nearby observation at the Kearney Airport recorded a measured wind gust of 59 MPH at 1:59 AM CDT at the same time of the wind damage. There was also a public report of an estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported 3 miles south of Gibbon at the Windmill State Recreation Area. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | $10,000 | A large tree fell onto a garage, damaging the roof. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Shelton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Shelton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles north-northwest of Shelton. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH, resulting in some minor tree damage in Shelton. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | Wind gusts estimated to be at least 75 MPH resulted in the derailment of approximately 15 rail cars on the westbound train line located just to the southwest of Shelton. Train traffic on both lines had to be stopped. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles north-northwest of Shelton. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a Nebraska DOT mesonet station located on Interstate 80 at the Shelton exit. |
| March 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Shelton | - | A brief landspout tornado was reported just south of Shelton and just north of Interstate 80. No damage was reported, and top winds were estimated to be between 50 and 60 mph. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | Large tree limbs were blown down in Shelton, with one falling onto and damaging a vehicle. Crop damage was also reported north of town. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Shelton | - | Brief touchdown was reported 3 miles south of Shelton. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | Winds estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Shelton | - | An off-duty NWS employee and many other storm spotters witnessed the tornado north of Shelton. No significant damage was reported from the tornado itself as it bounced along the ground. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Shelton | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | Shelton | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Shelton | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Shelton | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Shelton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelton | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Meisner Bank Building | 0.2 miles | 1999 |
 | Gibbon Baptist Church | 6.2 miles | 2016 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010940 in Record Group 79. |
| Buffalo County | All 21 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.