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Photograph of St. Paul's Methodist Protestant Church
Photograph by Ammodramus, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Paul's Methodist Protestant Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Paul's Methodist Protestant Church, also known as Stone Church, is a church building located south of Culbertson, Nebraska, United States, on Nebraska Highway 17. It was built in 1900 and was added to the National Register in 1979.”

Wikipedia article St. Paul's Methodist Protestant Church (Culbertson, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Hitchcock County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S of Culbertson on NE 17, Culbertson, 69001
  • When was it listed? January 1979
  • Category. building
  • Precinct. Logan precinct
  • National Register reference number. 79001446 - 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. Paul's Methodist Protestant Church in 2018, burning under an acre 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Hitchcock County

Storms near this property

60 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Culbertson, the town this property stands in, in 84 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 59 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Flash FloodCulbertson$250,000Hitchcock county commissioner estimated 5.25 of rain fell from overnight storms, with several roads in the extreme northeast part of Hitchcock county damaged and impassible. At approximately 11:45 am CDT, an earthen dam partially failed on the Hayes-Hitchcock county border, resulting in further flooding during the next 24 hours.
May 2007Flash FloodCulbertson$200,000Law enforcement reported that Frenchmen Creek was 25 feet wide at the river gauge. One home was flooded with some railroad damage between Palisade and Culbertson. Frenchman Creek near Palisade was running over bridge. County roads around Palisade have been washed out. 5.88 inches of rain produced flash flooding 4 SE of Palisade where roads are also washed out.||Frenchman Creek ultimately crested at 9.8 feet at Culbertson, which is 1.8 feet above flood stage (8.0 feet). The Frenchman was over flood stage for approximately 34 hours on May 30-31. This was the third highest crest reported in a nearly continuous period of record beginning in 1913.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCulbertson$31,000A barn at the fair grounds had extreme damage done to the siding and parts of the roof were blown off the building. The barn eventually collapsed. A power pole was also blown down.
April 2007Flash FloodCulbertson$25,000Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches fell Monday night (4/23) into Tuesday morning, resulting in county roads being washed out. Road 716 1 mile south of Culbertson was washed out with culverts overflowing. A bridge on Road 708, west of Hwy 17 about 10 miles south of Culbertson was washed out making the road impassible. Some county roads between Trenton and Culbertson under water.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCulbertson$21,000Report received of roof blown off home and barn door also torn off by a strong thunderstorm wind gust at location. Speed is estimated by damage indicators and time is estimated by radar.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCulbertson$10,000An irrigation pivot was reportedly overturned by thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2023FloodCulbertson$5,000The Frenchman creek was reported to be out of its bank and flooding county multiple roads, although it seemingly never flooded over highway 6.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCulbertson$1,000A large tree was reportedly downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCulbertson$500The public also reported that a few shingles had been blown off the roof of the house.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Visibility fell to 100 yards with these winds.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Ambient weather site FVC.
May 2024HailCulbertson-Report of nickel size hail occurring in the town of Culbertson.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Wind gust was reported by Ambient Weather site AW_2902D.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Large tree was snapped in town. Lower branches of the tree were not healthy.
June 2024HailCulbertson-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported by the public and a trained spotter.
June 2024HailCulbertson-Hail of 2.75 and 3.2 inches was measured by a storm chaser using calipers.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Recorded gust at EW9525 mesonet site.
September 2023HailCulbertson-Trained spotter reported 1.75 inch diameter hail in Culbertson.
September 2023HailCulbertson-Public report of 1.5 inch diameter hail becoming heavy rain.
September 2023HailCulbertson-Trained spotter reported 1.5 inch diameter hail east of Culbertson.
July 2023HailCulbertson-Initial size estimate of 2 inches seems underestimated based on submitted photo. 4.25 inches will be the official measurement.
July 2023HailCulbertson-County EM reported 1.25 inch hail.
July 2023HailCulbertson-Spotter report of 1 inch hail and leaves torn off of trees.
July 2023HailCulbertson-Public report of 1.5 inch hail.
June 2022HailCulbertson-Quarter to egg sized hail reported.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Reported via mesonet station EW9525.
June 2022HailCulbertson-Multiple reports of dime to egg sized hail reported in the town of Culbertson.
May 2021HailCulbertson-The hail ranged from pea to dime in size.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Law enforcement reported estimated 74 mph wind gusts.
July 2020HailCulbertson-Citizen reported quarter sized hail that stripped corn crop of all its leaves.
July 2020HailCulbertson-Hail ranged from dime to penny in size.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Wind gusts were estimated to be 55-60 MPH. Visibility was reduced to zero in the torrential rainfall.
May 2019Tornado (EFU)Culbertson-Hitchcock County Emergency Management reported a tornado south of Culbertson, NE. The tornado crossed Highway 17 between mile markers 10 and 11. No damage was reported and no clear damage was found by NWS storm survey on May 18th, 2019.
May 2019HailCulbertson-Numerous hail stones ranging in size from 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter were observed during a severe thunderstorm.
May 2019HailCulbertson-Numerous hail from 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter.
October 2017HailCulbertson-Tea cup size hail fell, then the size decreased to quarters.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Wind gusts were estimated to be close to 60 MPH.
June 2013HailCulbertson-Time estimated from Doppler radar.
September 2012HailCulbertson-Estimated the time of the report based on radar data.
July 2011HailCulbertson-Observer reported dime to half dollar sized hail along with heavy rain.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Spotter estimated gusts to be 60 MPH.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Pea sized hail was also occurring at the time of this report.
May 2008HailCulbertson-Spotters reported dime to quarter size hail that lasted approximately 15 minutes.
June 2008HailCulbertson-Nickel size hail and wind gusts of up to 40 mph were reported.
May 2003HailCulbertson-Reported by coop observer.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Numerous 2 inch tree limbs broken by strong winds.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-Numerous large tree limbs broken by strong winds.
October 1998HailCulbertson-Hail piled up a few inches deep near town.
July 1998HailCulbertson-Also, reported 2.5 South of Culbertson.
August 2023HailCulbertson-no account filed
July 2020HailCulbertson-no account filed
August 2019HailCulbertson-no account filed
August 2019HailCulbertson-no account filed
August 2019HailCulbertson-no account filed
August 2019HailCulbertson-no account filed
August 2019HailCulbertson-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCulbertson-no account filed
August 2015HailCulbertson-no account filed
May 2013HailCulbertson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hitchcock County

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001446 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hitchcock CountyAll 3 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.