BlockFrom the record
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
District No. 10 School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. W of Powell, Powell, 68303
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. building
- Precinct. Meridian precinct
- National Register reference number. 78001702 - 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
17 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of District No. 10 School between 2009 and 2018, burning about 728 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
14 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powell, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 8 hail, 5 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Flood | Powell | 1 killed, $5,000,000 | Extremely heavy rainfall of 6 to 10 inches fell across the northern basin of the Little Blue River. This cause the river to swell to record levels around the Fairbury area. The flooding resulted in the mandatory evacuations of areas of the western and southern parts of town, to the west of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. The flooding of some residents along the river did result in one fatality of an elderly residence in her basement. The river crested at 25.42 feet or 6.92 feet above flood stage. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | - | Mesonet station UR416 HEDRIW measured a peak wind gust of 55 knots. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Powell | - | The Little Blue River is out of its banks in many locations, inundating county roads across southern Jefferson county. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Powell | - | The ground was covered white with hail up to half dollar-size. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Powell | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported northwest of Fairbury. The storm also dropped very heavy rain with amounts around 4 inches reported. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Powell | - | Hail up to golfball-size fell for about 15 minutes. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Powell | - | Heavy rain during the evening of May 29th caused the Little Blue River to flood across Jefferson county the next day. The river at Fairbury reached a 17.3 foot crest around 115pm CDT on May 30th, flood stage is 15 feet. The river was above flood stage at Fairbury from the early morning until the late evening hours of May 30th. The flooding affected mainly just agricultural lowlands and any damage was minimal. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Powell | - | Heavy rain from June 4th into the early morning hours of June 5th caused the Little Blue River to flood across Jefferson county for the second time in a week. The river at Fairbury from this event reached a 19.2 foot crest around 1030am CDT on June 5th, flood stage is 15 feet. The river was above flood stage at Fairbury from early morning until late afternoon on June 5th. The flooding crossed a few county roads near the river and also flooded agricultural lowlands. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Powell | - | Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches fell over parts of the Little Blue River basin on May 14th causing the river to flood on the 15th. A little over 2 1/2 inches was reported 7 miles northwest of Fairbury. The Little Blue River at Fairbury climbed to around 16 feet at 215 pm cdt on May 15th, flood stage is 15 feet. The river was above flood stage from around 9 am until 730 pm that day. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Powell | - | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Woral C. Smith Lime Kiln and Limestone House | 6.9 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78001702 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson 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.
- 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.