Frank Uehling Barn

Built in 1918. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Frank Uehling Barn, in rural Dodge County, Nebraska near Uehling, Nebraska, is a round barn which was built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Frank Uehling Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Dodge County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1918.

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.
Listed as. Uehling, Frank, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off U.S. 77, Uehling, 68063
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. building
Township. Logan township
When was it built? 1918
National Register reference number. 85001666 - 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

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Frank Uehling Barn between 2009 and 2012, burning about 263 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 May 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 April 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 April 2011	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 April 2011	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uehling, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
August 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Uehling	$300,000	A survey team from the National Weather Service office in Valley concluded that a tornado occurred from about 4 miles west of Uehling to just east of Highway 77 in Uehling. The maximum path width was around 1500 feet. The tornado was rated an EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with maximum winds around 90 mph. According to Emergency Management Officials, 10 homes sustained minor damage due to falling tree limbs. Homes and buildings lost a considerable number of shingles. Immediately west of Uehling, there was damage to bleachers and fencing at a ballpark, numerous large tree limbs were blown down, and a few trees were uprooted or snapped at the base of the tree trunk. There were numerous patches of flattened corn west of the park area.
August 1999	Flash Flood	Uehling	$100,000	Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches caused extensive street flooding in Fremont, Uehling and Winslow with Clark, Logan and Bell Creeks among those which flooded. Water was reported curb to curb in Uehling with many basements flooded. Several long-time residents noted that the flood waters of Bell Creet and its tributaries were even higher than the 1944 flood.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Uehling	$5,000	Damage to trees and power lines.
June 2014	Flood	Uehling	$2,000	Heavy rain caused Logan Creek to climb slightly above it's 18 foot flood stage around the Uehling area from the afternoon of June 15 into the morning hours of the 16th. The flooding mainly impacted some farmland and a few roads near the creek.
April 2026	Hail	Uehling	-	Public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter in Uehling, NE.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Uehling	-	Public reported a measured peak wind gust of 82 mph.
April 2023	Hail	Uehling	-	Public reported 1.25-inch hail.
March 2019	Flood	Uehling	-	This is for flooding along the Logan Creek. The river gage at Uehling, operated by the USGS, peaked at 21.16 feet at 4 pm on March 15th. Minor flood stage is 18 feet, moderate flood stage is 19 feet while major flood stage is 21 feet. Preliminarily this peak is the highest on record. The only known damages were to county roads along the Logan Creek. Other flooded areas were low-lying areas of Oakland which included their city park.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Uehling	-	Spotters reported wind gusts to 70 mph. Numerous tree branches were downed in the city of Uehling. The combination of the wind and hail created significant damage in the city to the roofs and siding of homes.
June 2014	Hail	Uehling	-	Hail ranged from the size of ping pong ball size to baseball size hail in and around Uehling.
August 2011	Hail	Uehling	-	Hail up to around golf ball-size was accompanied by winds at least at 50 mph and caused areas of crop damage east of Uehling.
June 2010	Hail	Uehling	-	Hail up to golf ball-size covered the ground.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Uehling	-	Tree limbs at least 3 inches in diameter and power lines were reported downed. The damage could have either been caused by a tornado that tracked across the area or winds due to the rear flank downdraft of the tornado.
March 2007	Hail	Uehling	-	The hail covered the ground completely white and was accompanied by 2 inches of rain.
September 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Uehling	-	An ef0 tornado started about 3 miles south of Uehling around 527 pm. The tornado tracked to the north northeast damaging some farm buildings, trees and hay stacks. The tornado ended about 1 mile east of uehling around 532 pm.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Uehling	-	Numerous trees and power lines were downed in town due to thunderstorm winds estimated at around 70 mph. Several windows in town were blown out by the winds along with some door, roof and vehicle damage.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Uehling	-	Emergency management reported thunderstorm wind gusts blew a roof off of a building in Uehling and also did considerable tree damage which also downed power lines in town.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Uehling	-	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down tree limbs.
April 2017	Hail	Uehling	-	no account filed
September 2016	Hail	Uehling	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Uehling	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Uehling	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Uehling	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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 85001666 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dodge County	All 23 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.