States Ballroom

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The States Ballroom is a historic community building in Bee, Nebraska. Originally built as a dance hall, the building opened in 1939 as a Works Progress Administration project.”
Wikipedia article States Ballroom, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Seward County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.

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 415, Bee, 68314
When was it listed? October 1981
Category. building
Precinct. Precinct B
Architectural style. Moderne architecture
National Register reference number. 81000375 - 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

37 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of States Ballroom between 2000 and 2018, burning about 789 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	19
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
29 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 August 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 August 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Seward County

Storms near this property

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bee, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2025	Hail	Bee	-	Public report of hail estimated up to 2 in diameter.
May 2014	Hail	Bee	-	Hail from quarter to ping-pong ball-size fell for several minutes in the Bee area.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee	-	Thunderstorm winds, associated with the supercell that spawned 2 tornadoes in the Ulysses area, caused damage around Bee. The winds were estimated at over 60 mph.
June 2008	Hail	Bee	-	The hail occurred with the same supercell thunderstorm that produced a tornado west of the region.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bee	-	The winds were accompanied by penny size hail.
June 2007	Hail	Bee	-	The hail occurred along with winds estimated at 60 mph.
September 2009	Hail	Bee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seward 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Germantown State Bank Building	5.7 miles	1984
John Cattle Jr. House	6.7 miles	1978
Harry T. Jones House	7.0 miles	1990
John and Philomena Sand Zimmerer House	7.0 miles	1993
Seward County Courthouse	7.2 miles	1990
Seward County Courthouse Square Historic District	7.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000375 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seward County	All 9 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.