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One of 30 National Register listings published here for Gage County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Johnson Cabin Museum
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Blue Springs Park, Blue Springs, 68318
- When was it listed? July 2015
- Category. building
- Township. Blue Springs-Wymore township
- National Register reference number. 15000488 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
19 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Cabin Museum between 2005 and 2020, burning about 727 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 55 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 Johnson Cabin Museum: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behrens Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lake Bridenthal House | 1.3 miles | 1983 |
| Big Indian Creek Bridge | 4.9 miles | 1992 | |
| Bridge | 6.5 miles | 1992 | |
| Bloody Run Bridge | 7.3 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000488 in Record Group 79. |
| Gage County | All 30 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.