National Register reference number.85002439- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Omaha city. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
Urban B. Balcombe, who died at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, March 7, 191 7, was born in Elgin, Illinois,' in 1852. His father. Saint A. D. Balcombe, removed with his family to Omaha from Winona, Minnesota, July 5, 1865. He had formerly been agent for the captured Sioux and Winnebago Indians and in 1863 removed them to St.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
between 2008 and 2020, burning about 95 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
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
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
Boys Town, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning.
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.
Several rounds of thunderstorms during the early morning hours across the Omaha metro brought flash flooding to parts of the metro. The first reports of flash flooding came in just before 6:30 in the morning near Maple and 132nd Street. An additional report of flooded streets was received west of Carter Lake near the Sorensen and Fontenelle intersection. Water was also reported over a road in Boys Town.
This tornado started on 132nd Street and traveled north northeast crossing Blondo Street just east of 132nd Street where EF1 damage occurred due to a tree being uprooted. Other tree and fence damage was noted along this section of path. After crossing Blondo Street the tornado turned more north northwest crossing 132nd Street a Ekskine Street. The tornado continued north into the South Ridge subdivision producing mainly try damage before dissipating just before the Eagle Run subdivision.
A brief tornado touchdown was observed by storm chasers near the Alice Buffett Magnet Middle School. The storm survey team found little damage in the area.
A thunderstorm wind gust of 69 mph was measured by Asos at Omaha Eppley Airfield at 820 pm Cdt. The winds caused substantial tree damage in parts of town, notably near and east northeast of 156th and Blondo Streets, near Bennington and also in parts of midtown. Fences and outbuildings also sustained damage in those areas. Some other scattered tree damage was noted in town and power was knocked out to parts of town as well.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph caused scattered tree damage in the Omaha area which knocked out power to around 11,000 OPPD customers. Known tree damage included an eight inch in diameter tree limb downed near 144th and Blondo, a large limb down on a road near 45th and H Streets and a large tree downed on 55th Street just south of Dodge Street. A measured wind gust of 56 mph was recorded at the NWS office with this storm at 358 am CDT. Heavy rain in a short time also caused some minor street flooding east of 42nd Street.
A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured on home weather equipment near 156th and Maple Streets. The strong winds caused scattered tree damage, mainly across the northern sections of town from around Irvington through Florence. The fallen trees caused some vehicle and home damage and also knocked the power out to around 8,000 OPPD customers across the northern sections of town.
Thunderstorm wind gusts reached 60 to 80+ mph across northern and northeast sections of Omaha from the second super-cell thunderstorm that tracked across the city on the 18th. The strongest winds were reported at 163rd and Fort Streets, Interstate 80 and the Irvington exit, near 52nd and Maple Streets and around Omaha Eppley Airfield. Trees were downed from Gallagher Park, near 52nd and Maple, toward Eppley. The wind equipment at the Asos at Eppley was damaged by the wind driven hail from the first storm, but reportedly wind shear measuring equipment around the runways measured gusts of 80 knots.
Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph from near 156th and Maple to around 150th and Blondo Streets in west Omaha. The winds uprooted a large tree near 156th and Maple and caused other minor tree damage in the area. Pea-size and slightly larger hail accompanied the strong winds.
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.
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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