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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Christian Kupke Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 9 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Kupke, Christian, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 32618 Church Rd., Murdock, 68037
- When was it listed? December 2012
- Category. building
- Precinct. South Bend precinct
- Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
- National Register reference number. 12001073 - 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
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Christian Kupke Farmstead between 2002 and 2012, burning about 13 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Christian Kupke Farmstead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville Plant Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
28 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murdock, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | $1,000 | Very large tree downed. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Murdock | - | The office received a public report of quarter sized hail from mPING. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Murdock | - | Amateur radio reported approximately half a foot of water running over country roads northeast of Murdock. Most of this was runoff from nearby agricultural fields. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | A mesonet station recorded a 66 miles per hour wind gust. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Murdock | - | A tornado developed near Church Road west of 298th Street and immediately damaged a home. One of the roof peaks was torn off and garage doors blown in. The damage here was very focused as nearby trees were not damaged, but insulation from the home was stuck to 3 different sides of the home, indicating this was likely a tornado. Farther east, there was an area of focused tree damage approximately 150 yards wide embedded within a several mile wide area of more minor tree damage. The tornado continued east where it snapped several power poles and caused minor damage to a church. Additional damage to grain bins and trees was noted along Church road just west of 322nd street, which appears to be the end of the focused damage most likely caused by the tornado. This tornado occurred within a several mile wide area of intense straight-line wind damage which was caused by winds at times greater than 80 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Emergency manager reported two destroyed grain bins and house damage. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Report of multiple trees and power lines down. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Murdock | - | Public reported quarter sized hail. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Murdock | - | Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Murdock | - | Emergency manager reported 6.20 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Murdock | - | Public reported via mPing river/creek overflowing; cropland/yard/basement flooding. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Murdock | - | Minor flooding reported in the Murdock areas, and also on the northwest side of the Louisville Lakes area. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 70 mph blew a tree onto a car causing significant damage, and also downed many large limbs and uprooted a few trees in the Murdock area. The winds also snapped power poles in the region and blew a truck off of Highway 1. School was canceled the next day due to loss of power. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Murdock | - | Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches caused flash flooding across 310th Street just north of Highway 1 near Murdock. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Scattered wind damage from a low-topped supercell thunderstorm that earlier produced 5 tornadoes to the south, was reported west through southwest of the South Bend area. Due to the tree and farm outbuilding damage noted, a NWS Storm Survey estimated that wind speeds were between 90 and 100 mph. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph caused widespread tree damage across much of Cass county, including the Weeping Water area where part of a roof was torn off of an auditorium and some windows blown out. Many power lines were also downed. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Murdock | - | A tornado was on the ground for around 1.5 miles just west through north of Murdock. The tornado knocked down many trees and power lines in the area, and several outbuildings were destroyed. This tornado was from the same supercell complex that spawned the long tracked f4 tornado that did extensive damage in the Hallam area. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Pole barn destroyed. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | Tree damage. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murdock | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Murdock | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Manley School | 5.2 miles | 2004 |
 | Paul Fitzgerald House | 5.5 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12001073 in Record Group 79. |
| Cass County | All 26 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.