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One of 11 National Register listings published here for Richardson County · listed in 2013 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Falls City Commercial Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- Address. Roughly Stone St. from 15th to 19th Sts., Falls City, 68355
- When was it listed? December 2013
- Category. district
- Precinct. Falls City precinct
- National Register reference number. 13001023 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
23 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Falls City Commercial Historic District between 2008 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
53 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falls City, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 23 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | $1,500,000 | A swath of destructive straight line winds impacted portions of southeast Richardson County including Falls City. The Falls City ASOS measured a 91 miles per hour wind gust at 1:09 pm CDT, and again at 1:12 pm CDT. The ASOS lost power and stopped transmitting data at 1:15 pm CDT. Widespread tree damage was reported across Falls City with snow plows assisting in the removal of tree debris. Trees went through the roofs of two homes, and an additional house had a wall blown down as reported by law enforcement. A large factory in town lost approximately 3 to 4 thousand square feet of its roof. Powerlines were down across the southeast portion of the county, debris was strewn out across fields, and a school bus was reported to have been moved by the wind. |
| May 2006 | Lightning | Falls City | $75,000 | Lightning struck a tree next to a house and then traveled into the house and set in on fire. By the time firefighters arrived the house was completely in flames. The house and all of its contents were destroyed. There was nobody home at the time and no injuries were reported. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Falls City | $8,000 | Brief touchdown downed a few power poles and outbuildings. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | $2,000 | Damage to shed roof. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Falls City | $1,000 | Two to three inches of rain fell over much of Richardson county over several hours during the afternoon/early evening of 5/25...2.29 inches was measured at Falls City. The heavy rain caused flash flooding for a few hours across Pony Creek Road south of Falls City causing its brief closure. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Falls City | $1,000 | Rainfall of around 2 inches in an hour or so caused flooding across Highway 73 north of Falls City closing it for a while this evening. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Falls City | - | Trained spotter report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter in Falls City, NE. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | The Falls City ASOS recorded a 58 mile per hour wind gust. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Falls City | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail which fell for a few minutes. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Falls City ASOS measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Falls City ASOS measured a peak wind gust of 64 mph. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Falls City | - | NWS Employee reported 1-inch hail. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Falls City | - | Quarter sized hail. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Falls City | - | Observers reporting 5 to 7 inches of rain across the county. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Falls City | - | The public reported one inch hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | A person estimated 60 mph winds with pea size hail in Falls City. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Falls City | - | The spotter indicated the hail lasted for 5 minutes. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 70 mph tipped over a farm outbuilding and ripped tin from buildings in the area. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | A wind gust to 58 mph was measured by the Falls City ASOS equipment. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Falls City | - | Reported on the west side of Falls City. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Two trees and some large tree limbs were blown down in the Falls City area from thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Thunderstorm winds gusted over 60 mph for about 20 minutes in the Falls City area. Gusts of 64 to 70 mph were measured by the Asos at Falls City for this period. Tree damage was noted across town. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | The Asos at the Falls City airport measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Falls City | - | The hail lasted for around 5 minutes. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | A thunderstorm wind gust was measured at 59 mph by Asos at the Falls City airport. The winds caused damage to a hanger door. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Falls City | - | Hail up to golf ball-size was reported from southwest of Falls City into town. Many vehicles in town sustained hail damage, some substantially, along with roofs and sidings of homes. The hail was from a multi-updraft supercell thunderstorm that moved across the area that afternoon. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Falls City | - | Heavy rain, for the second night in a row, caused flash flooding along Big Muddy Creek north of Falls City. The flooding closed Highway 73 for an hour or so. Damage along Highway 73 was minimal. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Falls City | - | Hail up to quarter-size fell for at least several minutes in the Falls City area. |
| September 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | A thunderstorm wind gust was measured at 59 mph by the Falls City Asos. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph ripped the roof off of a cabin and scattered the debris across a park near Stanton Lake. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Falls City | - | Dime to nickel size hail fell in Falls City for a little over 5 minutes. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a measured wind gust of 66 mph at the Falls City Airport, and the Richardson County Emergency Manager recorded an unofficial wind gust of 80 mph with their monitoring equipment. The storm produced extensive tree damage throughout Falls City, and tore the roof off a local hardware store. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Falls City | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of county roads near Falls City. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Falls City | - | Heavy rainfall in Richardson county, radar estimated over 3 inches in some locations, caused flash flooding along Walnut Creek southeast of Falls City. The flood waters affected mainly rural lowlands but did flood a county road near town. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage south of Falls City. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | Thunderstorm gust downed power lines and did some tree limb and roof damage. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| December 2006 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Falls City | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Falls City | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Richardson County Courthouse | 0.1 miles | 1990 |
 | Gehling's Theatre | 0.2 miles | 1988 |
 | Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House | 0.4 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13001023 in Record Group 79. |
| Richardson County | All 11 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.