Scotia Chalk Building

Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Scotia Chalk Building, located off Nebraska Highway 22 in Scotia in Greeley County, Nebraska, was built in 1887. Also known as the Ed Wright Building, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Scotia Chalk Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Greeley County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1887.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off NE 22, Scotia, 68875
When was it listed? October 1979
Category. building
Precinct. Scotia precinct
When was it built? 1887
National Register reference number. 79003686 - 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

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Scotia Chalk Building between 2003 and 2017, burning about 38 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
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 July 2005	Natural	7.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 April 2009	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 March 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 February 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 November 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Greeley County

Storms near this property

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotia, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 19 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 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
March 2019	Flood	Scotia	$2,000,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotia	$500,000	Wind gusts estimated to be near 80 MPH caused widespread damage in eastern Valley and western Greeley counties. Along with tree damage, a handful of power poles were snapped, and several irrigation pivots were flipped. A number of grain bins and outbuildings were damaged, and a home north of North Loup suffered siding damage and also had a couple of trailers shifted from their parked spots.
July 2018	Hail	Scotia	$100,000	Hail up the size of half dollars was reported.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotia	$75,000	Considerable damage occurred to outbuildings and house windows were broken.
September 2019	Hail	Scotia	$75,000	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Scotia	$30,000	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Scotia	$30,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotia	$25,000	A truck with a utility trailer flipped over on Highway 22. This occurred from a rear flank downdraft. No injuries occurred. This report came from the Spotter Network.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotia	$25,000	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH. A shed was damaged when its roof was blown off and one wall fell, and a picnic shelter roof at the park was destroyed. Crop damage was also reported in the area.
May 2012	Hail	Scotia	$25,000	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Scotia	$25,000	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Scotia	$10,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotia	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Scotia	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Scotia	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Scotia	$5,000	no account filed
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotia	$1,000	Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in some tree damage in Scotia and minor damage to a small backyard shed.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotia	$1,000	no account filed
April 2013	Heavy Rain	Scotia	-	A total of 3.41 inches of rain fell. This was a 24-hour rainfall amount as of 7 am CDT. This report was relayed through the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information network.
October 2013	Heavy Rain	Scotia	-	A rainfall total of 3.16 inches occurred. Penny size hail also fell around 630 pm CDT. The time of the hail is estimated by radar data and other nearby reports.
October 2013	Heavy Rain	Scotia	-	A rainfall total of 3.16 inches occurred.
July 2017	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Scotia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greeley 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 79003686 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greeley County	All 6 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.