Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Indian Industrial School at Genoa, Nebraska, United States was the fourth non-reservation boarding institution established by the Office of Indian Affairs. The facility was completed in 1884 and operated until 1934.”
Wikipedia article Genoa Indian Industrial School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Nance County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78001706- 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
24 since 2004
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 24 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Indian Industrial School
between 2004 and 2020, burning about 273 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
6
Debris and open burning
5
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Fireworks
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of U.S. Indian Industrial School: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Genoa, the town this property stands in, in 65 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 36 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 3 flash flood.
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.
Based on radar estimation and various measured totals from NWS/NeRAIN/CoCoRaHS observers, widespread rainfall of 2.50-7.00 inches fell across most of the county mainly between 8 p.m. CDT on the 21st and 1 a.m. CDT on the 22nd. Per media reports, the county supervisor reported flood damage to numerous rural roads.
A several block wide stretch of wind damage occurred in Genoa, including several trees down and homes, buildings and vehicles damaged. Local businesses lost power into the following day, and a lumberyard lost a portion of the front of its building, which also sustained electrical damage. The storm also lifted off a section of the post office roof and destroyed a window.
Wind gusts were estimated to be around 70 MPH in Genoa, closer to 60 MPH three miles north of Genoa. Tree damage and nickel size hail was reported across Genoa.
This is a 24 hour rain total ending at 810 am CDT. A rain total of 3.60 inches fell 7.5 miles west-northwest of Genoa. Two periods of rain occurred. The first was roughly 1 am to 230 am CDT, and the second occurred between 4 am and 8 am CDT. This report was from the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network.
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.
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.
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.
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