St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 740 Locust St., North Bend, 68649
When was it listed? November 2025
Category. building
City. North Bend city
National Register reference number. 100012278 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
3 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 April 2018	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this property

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Bend, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 28 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 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
April 1999	Tornado (F1)	North Bend	$125,000	This tornado, which caused extensive damage to Morse Bluff in Saunders county crossed the Platte River just south of North Bend and damaged 14 houses in North Bend, 2 heavily.
June 2010	Flood	North Bend	$10,000	Rainfall of at least 3 to 5 inches fell over much central Nebraska the week ending 7am 6/12, with additional heavy rains the following several days. All of this water eventually worked into the Platte River causing it to rise above flood stage from around North Bend downstream to its confluence with the Missouri River. At North Bend the river crested a little below 8.5 feet early in the morning on 6/14, flood stage is 8 feet. The river was above flood stage near North Bend for most of the period from the afternoon of 6/13 through the morning of 6/16. The flooding mainly affected agricultural bottom lands along the river although some county roads and recreation areas were under water for a while.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds caused a large tree limb to fall on a car causing some damage.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	The office received a report of 3-inch tree limbs down.
May 2023	Flash Flood	North Bend	-	The public reported street flooding via mPing.
May 2023	Hail	North Bend	-	Public reported 1.25-inch hail via mPing.
May 2023	Hail	North Bend	-	The public reported 1.25-inch hail via mPing.
April 2022	Hail	North Bend	-	Public reported 1 inch hail via social media.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	Emergency manager reported multiple large tree branches down.
March 2019	Flood	North Bend	-	The housing that holds the gauge equipment was knocked over by flowing ice. Data measurement on the Platte River at this location unavailable until further notice.
May 2019	Hail	North Bend	-	This was reported by the public on social media.
June 2014	Hail	North Bend	-	The public also indicated 45 to 55 mph winds with the hail.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	A spotter estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts approached 60 mph. Some small branches were downed in town.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 70 mph snapped trees and overturned center pivots from near North Bend to just west of Fremont. The damage from this storm began in Colfax county, reached its peak just west of North Bend and then weakened as it approached Fremont.
May 2011	Hail	North Bend	-	The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph.
June 2011	Tornado (EF0)	North Bend	-	A narrow land spout-type tornado was on the ground for about 15 minutes in between Fremont and North Bend. The tornado was caught on video by several different people and was viewed by many in the Fremont toward Cedar Bluffs area. The tornado stayed in an open field and did little more than pick up dust.
June 2009	Hail	North Bend	-	Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell north of North Bend for over 10 minutes.
August 2009	Hail	North Bend	-	From the same supercell thunderstorm that produced similar size hail in the Columbus area a little earlier.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 70 mph from just north of North Bend into town. This is the beginning of where the bow echo that slammed across the Omaha/Council Bluffs area started causing damage. In North Bend a few trees were uprooted and many tree limbs were downed. A few center pivots were flipped northeast of town.
February 2007	Flood	North Bend	-	Ice jams and rising water due to snow melt on the Platte River caused water to flood near and very large chunks of ice to be thrown up on the banks surrounding at least 30 homes and cabins from the McGinns Lake area near North Bend to the Mangus and Legge's Lakes area near Fremont. Flood waters also surrounded the Big Island area and a few county roads were also flooded in the region.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and large limbs in and near North Bend and damaged two center pivots east of town. Some residents in the area lost power for up to 17 hours. Winds were estimated at 70 mph, although unofficially a wind gage at the North Bend Fire Hall reportedly measured a gust at 93 mph.
September 2007	Hail	North Bend	-	Hail up to one inch in diameter damaged vehicles.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph by a trained weather spotter.
May 2004	Hail	North Bend	-	Hail up to golfball size fell from 6 miles west northwest of North Bend into the town itself. The hail was associated with the same supercell that produced the brief tornado touchdown southwest of Schuyler.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed trees and did some minor roof damage from North Bend to a few miles east of town. Power was knocked out across parts of North Bend for almost an hour.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at "well over 60 mph" by a law enforcement official in town.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed trees in North Bend.
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	North Bend	-	Several reported
May 2018	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	North Bend	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	North Bend	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	North Bend Carnegie Library	0.1 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012278 in Record Group 79.
Dodge County	All 23 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.