Johnston Memorial Building

Built in 1921 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Johnston Memorial Building is a historic building in Wallace, Nebraska. It was built in 1921 in memory of John R.”
Wikipedia article Johnston Memorial Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1921, Prairie School architecture, by Francis Willford Fitzpatrick.

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 25, Wallace, 69169
When was it listed? March 1986
Category. building
Precinct. Wallace precinct
When was it built? 1921
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture, American Craftsman
Architect. Francis Willford Fitzpatrick
National Register reference number. 86000473 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Johnston Memorial Building between 2007 and 2012, burning about 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
18 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 July 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 May 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
22 May 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 March 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 March 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

60 of 99 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace, the town this property stands in, in 99 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 68 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 1997	Hail	Wallace	$1,500,000	Thunderstorms with large hail and 60 mph winds damaged crops and property in a path across Southwest Nebraska.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$350,000	Very strong winds overturned 12 center pivot irrigation systems west of Wallace and then broke off numerous trees and damaged roofs in Wallace. It also damaged the roof of the school gymnasium.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Wallace	$200,000	Thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall of 2 to 6 inches across Lincoln County. The heaviest rainfall occurred across the southwestern portion of the county. Asher Road 4 miles southwest of Wellfleet washed out creating a crater of 1/2 mile long by 4 feet deep. A bridge washed out south of Wellfleet on the Hayes Center Road. Numerous secondary roads were severely damaged due to water over the roads.
May 2000	Hail	Wallace	$150,000	Extensive damage to homes and cars in Wallace.
July 2000	Hail	Wallace	$150,000	no account filed
May 2000	Tornado (F1)	Wallace	$100,000	An F1 tornado touched down 1 mile northeast of Wallace, was on the ground for 5 minutes and lifted 3 miles north of Wallace. The tornado damaged or destroyed three center pivot irrigation systems and destroyed crops in its path.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$70,000	The intense winds broke off large tree limbs, overturned a center pivot irrigation system, and snapped off a large power pole.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$50,000	Significant tree damage in Wallace from thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Wallace	$45,000	Heavy rainfall led to increased flows on a small creek in southwest Wallace. Nearby homes did have water reach the foundations with flood waters into one home. The Lincoln County Emergency Manager reported that the Wallace Fire Department used a boat to check on residents surrounded by the flood waters with one resident rescued due to the flood waters.
August 2007	Hail	Wallace	$35,000	A strong thunderstorm produced up to golf ball size hail. Hail covered the ground.
August 2011	Hail	Wallace	$25,000	Twenty-four windows were broken out of a local business building, with many other reports of windows broken out of homes and vehicles in the city of Wallace.
May 2013	Hail	Wallace	$15,000	Hail shattered double and triple pane windows, damaged siding, and left divots in the ground.
June 2015	Hail	Wallace	$10,000	Crop damage occurred to corn and alfalfa. Vehicles sustained dent damage.
August 2007	Hail	Wallace	$5,000	Quarter sized hail dented numerous cars.
September 2007	Hail	Wallace	$5,000	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Wallace	$5,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Wallace	$5,000	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Wallace	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Wallace	$5,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$4,000	Four power poles were snapped 1 mile east of Wallace near the intersection of Highway 23 and 25A.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$4,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down several large trees.
August 1997	Hail	Wallace	$4,000	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Wallace	$3,000	Car windows broken from hail.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$3,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Wallace	$1,500	Hail ranging in size from golfballs to baseballs was reported 2 miles south of Wallace.
June 2008	Hail	Wallace	$1,500	no account filed
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	$1,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH downed medium sized branches and led to stripped corn.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Wallace	$1,000	Water accumulated from slow moving storms and caused Highway 25 to be flooded by three feet of water.
May 2008	Hail	Wallace	$1,000	no account filed
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 MPH reported at this location.
May 2021	Hail	Wallace	-	Public reported golf ball sized hail at this location.
May 2021	Hail	Wallace	-	Trained spotter reported egg sized hail northeast of Wallace.
July 2020	Hail	Wallace	-	A trained weather spotter estimated up to baseball size hail near Wallace. All north facing windows of the house were broken.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	A trained weather spotter reported a one mile stretch of power lines downed near Highways 23 and 25. Trees were mangled and hay bales were thrown due to high winds.
July 2020	Hail	Wallace	-	Public reported hail up to baseball size south of Wallace.
July 2020	Hail	Wallace	-	A trained weather spotter reported hail up to baseball size and estimated winds at 80 mph.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Wind driven hail broke north facing windows out of a house.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Thunderstorm wind gust of 62 MPH reported at a mesonet station.
September 2019	Hail	Wallace	-	Nickel to quarter sized hail reported at this location.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Estimated 60 mph wind gusts dropped a large tree limb onto a house.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Wind gust estimated at 60 MPH at this location.
July 2015	Hail	Wallace	-	In addition to golf ball sized hail, heavy rain was also reported.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Wallace	-	The Lincoln County Emergency Manager reported flood waters over highways 25 and 23 near Wallace.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	General public located 3 miles south of Wallace reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Trees reported down in Wallace and power lines across Highway 23.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Winds reported at 70 mph winds in Wallace.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	A storm chaser reported 70 mph winds at a location 3 miles northeast of Wallace.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	No major damage was reported with this wind gust.
April 2012	Hail	Wallace	-	Hail up to one inch in diameter covered the ground to three inches in depth.
August 2011	Funnel Cloud	Wallace	-	A wall cloud produced several small funnel clouds near Wallace.
June 2009	Hail	Wallace	-	The hail accumulated to one-half inch deep on the road.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Strong winds and small hail were reported by a cooperative observer.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	A trained spotter reported wind gusts of at least 60 mph.
May 2008	Hail	Wallace	-	A Nebraska rain network observer reported the hail lasted for five minutes and covered the ground.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Wallace	-	Law enforcement reported water over Highway 25 three miles south of Wallace.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree.
May 2024	Hail	Wallace	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Wallace	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Wallace	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Wallace	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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 86000473 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln 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.