Zion Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Zion Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Clarkson, Nebraska that is significant "as the first Czech Presbyterian Church in Nebraska and one of a very few in this section of the country". It was designed by a Czech architect named M.D.”
Wikipedia article Zion Presbyterian Church (Clarkson, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Colfax County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5 mi. SE of Clarkson off NE 15, Clarkson, 68629
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Precinct. Adams precinct
National Register reference number. 87002071 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Zion Presbyterian Church between 2002 and 2019, burning about 128 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	6
Debris and open burning	3
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
18 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 April 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 March 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 December 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 November 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Storms near this property

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkson, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkson	-	Delayed public report of porch and roof damage. Time estimated based on radar.
April 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Clarkson	-	Eyewitness reports and photo and video evidence show that the long-lived funnel cloud formed a ground circulation that began at approximately 118 local time and lasted for approximately 5 minutes. It slowly traveled northeast during this time, with the only damage being some minor damage to tree branches.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkson	-	Trained Spotter estimated winds at 60 mph.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Clarkson	-	Measured 3 inches southwest of Howells.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkson	-	Power lines were blown down near Clarkson.
May 2018	Hail	Clarkson	-	One inch hail was reported 6 miles south of Clarkson.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkson	-	Local fire and rescue reported widespread wind damage in the city of Clarkson. This included significant tree damage, as well as power poles being blown down.
July 2009	Hail	Clarkson	-	Hail up to golf ball-size fell from south of the Clarkson and Howells area to near Schuyler. The hail caused sporadic damage to shingles and siding in the region and was accompanied by strong winds.
August 2007	Flood	Clarkson	-	Heavy rain over several days caused a few small creeks in northern Colfax county to flood farm fields and several county roads. Most of the flooding was near Highway 91, although the highway itself was not flooded.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkson	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph caused some siding and roof damage in the Howells and Clarkson area.
July 2006	Hail	Clarkson	-	The hail was reported on the Colfax and Stanton county line.
April 2005	Hail	Clarkson	-	Hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter covered the ground near Clarkson.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Clarkson	-	A trained weather spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown south of Clarkson. The tornado did no apparent damage.
May 2002	Hail	Clarkson	-	Hail up to golfball size fell for around 10 minutes in Clarkson. The hail caused extensive siding and window damage due to the fact it fell along with thunderstorm wind gusts of over 50 mph.
July 1997	Hail	Clarkson	-	Hail damaged or destroyed 2500 acres of corn, soybeans, and alfalfa.
September 2016	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F1)	Clarkson	-	no account filed
July 1997	Funnel Cloud	Clarkson	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkson	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Clarkson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colfax 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

3 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
Baumert & Bogner	4.1 miles	2022
Baumert & Bogner	4.1 miles	2022
Z.C.B.J. Opera House	4.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002071 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Colfax County	All 12 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.