Germantown State Bank Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Germantown State Bank Building is a historic bank building located in the village of Garland, Nebraska in the United States of America. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Germantown State Bank Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Seward County · listed in 1984 · 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. Main St., Garland, 68360
When was it listed? December 1984
Category. building
Precinct. Precinct H
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 84000512 - 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

32 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Germantown State Bank Building between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,192 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 August 2017	Natural	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 May 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 May 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 April 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Seward County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garland, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
September 1995	Hail	Garland	$100,000	no account filed
July 2024	Flash Flood	Garland	-	Water was reported over roads along the Lower Oak Creek upstream from Branched Oak Lake.
June 2022	Hail	Garland	-	Public reported widespread hail damage to home, back window broken out in automobile.
June 2022	Hail	Garland	-	Public reported 1.5 inch hail and broken skylight and windows.
June 2022	Hail	Garland	-	Broadcast media relayed report of 2.25-inch hail at a Seward car wash.
June 2022	Hail	Garland	-	Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Garland	-	Emergency manager reported siding blown off of a shed.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Garland	-	One inch hail was accompanied by thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph. The wind and hail flattened some crops in the area.
July 2012	Hail	Garland	-	Hail around 1 inch in diameter was reported in the Garland area. The hail was accompanied by winds estimated at around 60 mph. The wind and hail flattened some crops nearby.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Garland	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were observed near Garland. The winds were associated with the supercell thunderstorm that spawned 2 tornadoes in the Ulysses area.
June 2007	Hail	Garland	-	The hail was also accompanied by very strong winds, the speed of which was unknown at the time.
March 2007	Hail	Garland	-	Hail up to half dollar size was reported around the Garland area.
July 2006	Hail	Garland	-	The hail covered the ground white. A few were around golf ball size or maybe a touch bigger.
May 2019	Hail	Garland	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Garland	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Garland	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Garland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Garland	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Garland	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Garland	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Garland	-	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
States Ballroom	5.7 miles	1981
Harry T. Jones House	6.0 miles	1990
John and Philomena Sand Zimmerer House	6.3 miles	1993
Seward County Courthouse	6.3 miles	1990
Seward County Courthouse Square Historic District	6.4 miles	1982
John Cattle Jr. House	6.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000512 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.