Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
From the record
“The North Bend Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 140 E. 8th St. in North Bend, Nebraska. The library was funded by the Carnegie Foundation in 1911 and dedicated in 1913; it housed a library program started by the city's Woman's Club in 1906.”
Wikipedia article North Bend Carnegie Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.81000371- 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
13 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of North Bend Carnegie Library
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
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 National Weather Service names
North Bend, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 28 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 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.
This tornado, which caused extensive damage to Morse Bluff in Saunders county crossed the Platte River just south of North Bend and damaged 14 houses in North Bend, 2 heavily.
Rainfall of at least 3 to 5 inches fell over much central Nebraska the week ending 7am 6/12, with additional heavy rains the following several days. All of this water eventually worked into the Platte River causing it to rise above flood stage from around North Bend downstream to its confluence with the Missouri River. At North Bend the river crested a little below 8.5 feet early in the morning on 6/14, flood stage is 8 feet. The river was above flood stage near North Bend for most of the period from the afternoon of 6/13 through the morning of 6/16. The flooding mainly affected agricultural bottom lands along the river although some county roads and recreation areas were under water for a while.
The housing that holds the gauge equipment was knocked over by flowing ice. Data measurement on the Platte River at this location unavailable until further notice.
Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 70 mph snapped trees and overturned center pivots from near North Bend to just west of Fremont. The damage from this storm began in Colfax county, reached its peak just west of North Bend and then weakened as it approached Fremont.
A narrow land spout-type tornado was on the ground for about 15 minutes in between Fremont and North Bend. The tornado was caught on video by several different people and was viewed by many in the Fremont toward Cedar Bluffs area. The tornado stayed in an open field and did little more than pick up dust.
Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 70 mph from just north of North Bend into town. This is the beginning of where the bow echo that slammed across the Omaha/Council Bluffs area started causing damage. In North Bend a few trees were uprooted and many tree limbs were downed. A few center pivots were flipped northeast of town.
Ice jams and rising water due to snow melt on the Platte River caused water to flood near and very large chunks of ice to be thrown up on the banks surrounding at least 30 homes and cabins from the McGinns Lake area near North Bend to the Mangus and Legge's Lakes area near Fremont. Flood waters also surrounded the Big Island area and a few county roads were also flooded in the region.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and large limbs in and near North Bend and damaged two center pivots east of town. Some residents in the area lost power for up to 17 hours. Winds were estimated at 70 mph, although unofficially a wind gage at the North Bend Fire Hall reportedly measured a gust at 93 mph.
Hail up to golfball size fell from 6 miles west northwest of North Bend into the town itself. The hail was associated with the same supercell that produced the brief tornado touchdown southwest of Schuyler.
Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed trees and did some minor roof damage from North Bend to a few miles east of town. Power was knocked out across parts of North Bend for almost an hour.
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
1 within 8 miles
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.
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.
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