Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
“The Fontanelle Township Hall is a historic one-story building in Fontanelle, Nebraska. It was built with bricks under the supervision of H.J.”
Wikipedia article Fontanelle Township Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Fontanelle Township Hall between 2009 and 2019, burning about 68 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fontanelle, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Hail | Fontanelle | - | Public report of hail measured up to 2.5 in diameter. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Fontanelle | - | Report of dime to quarter sized hail. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Fontanelle | - | Highway 91 is closed in both direction between Blair and Nickerson. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Fontanelle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | George A. Marshall House | 6.9 miles | 2018 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82003205 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Washington County | All 14 listed properties in this county. |
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