Menter Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Menter Farmstead, near Big Springs, Nebraska, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is a farmstead built 1919-1928 during a regional agricultural boom sparked by winter wheat demand in World War I, and reflecting increased mechanization with its grain elevator and concrete block construction.”
Wikipedia article Menter Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Deuel County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1270 North Fork Rd., Big Springs, 69122
When was it listed? December 2011
Category. building
Precinct. Big Springs precinct
National Register reference number. 11000886 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

43 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Menter Farmstead between 2007 and 2018, burning about 521 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	16
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
11 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Deuel County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Springs, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 1996	Hail	Big Springs	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Big Springs	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deuel 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Phelps Hotel	1.8 miles	1970
	Wallace W. Waterman Sod House	7.3 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000886 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Deuel County	All 5 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.