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One of 12 National Register listings published here for Cedar County · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bow Valley Mills
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Wynot, Wynot, 68792
- Category. building
- Precinct. Precinct 5
- National Register reference number. 78003402 - 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
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bow Valley Mills between 2006 and 2018, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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 | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 May 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 454TH |
| 19 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
22 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wynot, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Wynot | $50,000 | Thunderstorms dropped very heavy rain in the Wynot area which produced areas of flash flooding. The cooperative observer near Wynot reported 3.55 inches of rain in a several hour period during the morning of July 9th. The flooding was observed across several county roads and Highway 12 near Wynot. Gravel was washed off of a few roads and some culvert damage was noted. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Multiple 3-inch tree branches were reported down in the town of Wynot, Nebraska. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Public reported large tree down near Wynot. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Wynot | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Trained spotter estimated wind at about 60 mph. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Wynot | - | Water over rural roads were reported by the Wynot Fire Department. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed large tree limbs onto power lines which caused some scattered power outages in the Wynot and St. Helena areas. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Wynot | - | Hail up to golfball size stripped some corn in the area. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph near town. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed large tree limbs in Wynot. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wynot | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph by a spotter. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wynot | - | Hail slightly larger than dime size fell for 20 minutes in Wynot, which also reported 3 inches of rain in a 90 minute period. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Wynot | - | The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts around 70 mph as reported by law enforcement personnel. |
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Wynot | - | Two to 3 inches of rain, with an isolated 7 inch report, caused flash flooding around the Wynot area...mainly along the West Bow Creek area. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wynot | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Wynot | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Saints Philip and James Parochial School | 2.3 miles | 2003 |
 | Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Rectory | 5.2 miles | 2001 |
 | Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church Complex | 5.3 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78003402 in Record Group 79. |
| Cedar County | All 12 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.