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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Gottsch Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 17201 Dutch Hall Rd., Bennington, 68007
- When was it listed? August 2016
- Category. building
- Township. Township 7
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 16000516 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
68 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Gottsch Farmstead between 2008 and 2020, burning about 514 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 | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2008 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Long Creek School | 6.6 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000516 in Record Group 79. |
| Washington County | All 14 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.