Kacirek-Woita General Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Saunders County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 250 N. Elm St., Weston, 68070
When was it listed? July 2014
Category. building
Township. Chapman township
National Register reference number. 14000397 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kacirek-Woita General Store between 2008 and 2019, burning about 8 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
10 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 July 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 July 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 March 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 March 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 March 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Saunders County

Storms near this property

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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
September 2025	Flood	Weston	-	Excessive rainfall across portions of eastern Nebraska triggered riverine flooding along the Wahoo Creek extending from September 1 into September 2, 2025. Initial impact was noted at 5:45 PM CST when a National Weather Service (NWS) employee reported water moving over Country Road J near Country Road 16. The river gauge at Wahoo Creek at Ithaca officially entered flood stage at 12:30 AM CST on September 2, 2025. The creek subsequently reached its crest of 19.55 feet, a level corresponding to minor flood stage, at 6:15 AM CST. By 9:00 AM CST on September 2, the gauge indicated that the Wahoo Creek had receded back below flood stage.
May 2024	Hail	Weston	-	The office received a report of golfball sized hail from the public 2 miles northwest of Weston, Nebraska.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	Public reported tree branches down and roof shingles torn off of a chicken house.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	Public reported tree damage across Weston ranging from snapped branches to uprooted trees. Power poles were snapped and power lines were down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	Trained spotter reported an estimated 70 mph wind gust.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Weston	-	Weston, NE measured 2.05 inches.
June 2019	Heavy Rain	Weston	-	Measured 2.97 inches of rain at Weston in the previous 24 hours.
June 2014	Hail	Weston	-	The reports in this area ranged from baseball to tea cup size hail from both spotters and the emergency manager.
July 2013	Hail	Weston	-	Hail was mostly dime, but a few stones were up to a quarter and a half dollar in size.
April 2010	Hail	Weston	-	The public reported a few hailstones reached golfball-size.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph uprooted a tree and blew over a carport near Weston and caused scattered tree damage from there into the Wahoo area. Some of the trees or large limbs that fell in Wahoo caused some generally minor vehicle, home and other structural damage.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	The coop observer near Weston measured thunderstorm wind gusts of 59 mph with home weather equipment.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	The cooperative observer just northwest of Weston measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph with weather equipment. The thunderstorm was accompanied by pea-size hail and an inch of rain that fell in 1 hour.
June 2008	Hail	Weston	-	Hail that was around nickel size lasted for about 10 minutes.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	The cooperative observer near Weston measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 73 mph.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 70 mph by a amateur radio operator.\|
April 2005	Hail	Weston	-	Hail up to nickel size was reported in and just southwest of Weston.
April 2005	Hail	Weston	-	Dime to nickel size hail was reported south to southwest of Weston.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	See narrative below.
May 2004	Hail	Weston	-	Hail up to 1 inch in diameter fell in the Weston area.
June 2001	Tornado (F0)	Weston	-	This brief touchdown of a tornado was produced by the same supercell that spawned the tornado near Seward. This one touched down in open country near Weston and apparently caused no damage.
June 2008	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed
September 1993	Hail	Weston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saunders 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Saunders County Courthouse	1.5 miles	1990
Howard Hanson House	6.7 miles	1983
F.J. Kirchman House	6.7 miles	2003
Wahoo Burlington Depot	6.9 miles	1985
O. K. Market	7.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000397 in Record Group 79.
Saunders County	All 16 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.