Built in 1927 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
One of 226 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1927, Colonial Revival architecture.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
An account from the chapter on Omaha city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Urban B. Balcombe, who died at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, March 7, 191 7, was born in Elgin, Illinois,' in 1852. His father. Saint A. D. Balcombe, removed with his family to Omaha from Winona, Minnesota, July 5, 1865. He had formerly been agent for the captured Sioux and Winnebago Indians and in 1863 removed them to St.
This property stands in Omaha City. Omaha: the Gate City, and Douglas County, Nebraska;, published 1917 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Omaha City - 405,514 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Father Flanagan's House between 2008 and 2020, burning about 15 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boys Town, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Boys Town | $100,000 | Several rounds of thunderstorms during the early morning hours across the Omaha metro brought flash flooding to parts of the metro. The first reports of flash flooding came in just before 6:30 in the morning near Maple and 132nd Street. An additional report of flooded streets was received west of Carter Lake near the Sorensen and Fontenelle intersection. Water was also reported over a road in Boys Town. |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Boys Town | $70,000 | A lightning strike caused a house fire in northwest Omaha. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Broadcast media report of hail measured up to 0.88 inches in diameter near Boys Town, NE. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1.75 in diameter from an mPING report. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Trained spotter report of hail estimated at 1 in diameter. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | A 60 miles per hour wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | The office received a public report of several 1 to 3 inch tree limbs down in a neighborhood. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Boys Town | - | NWS Employee reported 1.5-inch hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Public reported 1.5-inch hail via mPING. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Trained spotter reported 1.5-inch hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Public reported 1 inch hail via mPing. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | Public report from mPing of damage to 3 inch tree branches. |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | Public via social media reported a large tree down across 150th and Dodge St in Omaha. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | Wind estimated at 60 MPH by tree damage. A 5 inch tree was snapped and portions of a fence were blown down. |
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Boys Town | - | This tornado started on 132nd Street and traveled north northeast crossing Blondo Street just east of 132nd Street where EF1 damage occurred due to a tree being uprooted. Other tree and fence damage was noted along this section of path. After crossing Blondo Street the tornado turned more north northwest crossing 132nd Street a Ekskine Street. The tornado continued north into the South Ridge subdivision producing mainly try damage before dissipating just before the Eagle Run subdivision. |
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Boys Town | - | A brief tornado touchdown was observed by storm chasers near the Alice Buffett Magnet Middle School. The storm survey team found little damage in the area. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Around a mile northwest of Boystown. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 69 mph was measured by Asos at Omaha Eppley Airfield at 820 pm Cdt. The winds caused substantial tree damage in parts of town, notably near and east northeast of 156th and Blondo Streets, near Bennington and also in parts of midtown. Fences and outbuildings also sustained damage in those areas. Some other scattered tree damage was noted in town and power was knocked out to parts of town as well. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph caused scattered tree damage in the Omaha area which knocked out power to around 11,000 OPPD customers. Known tree damage included an eight inch in diameter tree limb downed near 144th and Blondo, a large limb down on a road near 45th and H Streets and a large tree downed on 55th Street just south of Dodge Street. A measured wind gust of 56 mph was recorded at the NWS office with this storm at 358 am CDT. Heavy rain in a short time also caused some minor street flooding east of 42nd Street. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured on home weather equipment near 156th and Maple Streets. The strong winds caused scattered tree damage, mainly across the northern sections of town from around Irvington through Florence. The fallen trees caused some vehicle and home damage and also knocked the power out to around 8,000 OPPD customers across the northern sections of town. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 to 80+ mph across northern and northeast sections of Omaha from the second super-cell thunderstorm that tracked across the city on the 18th. The strongest winds were reported at 163rd and Fort Streets, Interstate 80 and the Irvington exit, near 52nd and Maple Streets and around Omaha Eppley Airfield. Trees were downed from Gallagher Park, near 52nd and Maple, toward Eppley. The wind equipment at the Asos at Eppley was damaged by the wind driven hail from the first storm, but reportedly wind shear measuring equipment around the runways measured gusts of 80 knots. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph from near 156th and Maple to around 150th and Blondo Streets in west Omaha. The winds uprooted a large tree near 156th and Maple and caused other minor tree damage in the area. Pea-size and slightly larger hail accompanied the strong winds. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Boys Town | - | Reported near 132nd and Fort Streets. From the second storm that rolled across the Omaha metro area this evening. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | Three foot diameter tree uprooted. Four to five inch diameter limbs off other trees. Pacific Springs area. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Boys Town | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Boys Town | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Boys Town | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Boys Town | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boys Town | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Boys Town | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Boys Town | - | no account filed |
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.
Other 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
| Lincoln Highway | 3.5 miles | 1987 | |
 | Lincoln Highway-Omaha to Elkhorn | 4.0 miles | 2003 |
 | Ackerhurst-Eipperhurst Dairy Barn | 5.2 miles | 2002 |
 | Elkhorn Town Hall | 5.5 miles | 2022 |
| Elkhorn Commercial Historic District (Additional Documentation) | 5.5 miles | 2024 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79001439 in Record Group 79. |
| Douglas County | All 226 listed properties in this county. |
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