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One of 12 National Register listings published here for Pawnee County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Table Rock Opera House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Houston St., Table Rock, 68447
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. Opera House Buildings in Nebraska 1867-1917 MPS
- Precinct. Precinct 3, Table Rock
- National Register reference number. 88000931 - 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
11 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Table Rock Opera House between 2004 and 2020, burning about 553 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 24 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 April 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 110 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 30 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
27 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Table Rock, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Table Rock | $150,000 | Three buildings destroyed. |
| May 1996 | Lightning | Table Rock | $40,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Table Rock | - | Trained spotter report of hail measured up to 1.75 inch in diameter near Elk Creek, NE. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Table Rock | - | Trained spotter measured gust of 60 mph. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Table Rock | - | Storm chaser reported 2.75-inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Table Rock | - | Public reported via mPing for 3.25-inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Table Rock | - | Public sent multiple photos on social media of 4.5-inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Table Rock | - | Public reported 1.25-inch hail via mPing. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Table Rock | - | Trained spotter reported 2.75-inch hail. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Table Rock | - | Report from mPing of 1.75 inch hail. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Table Rock | - | A trained spotter reported 6 power poles snapped and leaning from west to east. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Table Rock | - | The COOP Observer reported 2.40 inches of rain north of Table Rock. |
| August 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Table Rock | - | A tornado developed in the extreme northeast part of Pawnee County from a supercell moving southeast. The tornado only occurred for a short distance in Pawnee County before moving into Richardson County. Little damage occurred in in Pawnee County but the tornado was given an EF1 rating based on how extensive the crop damage was from the tornado. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Table Rock | - | The cooperative observer reported 1.90 inches of rain fell in 35 minutes. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Table Rock | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph took down 5 power poles west of Auburn. |
| May 1999 | Flash Flood | Table Rock | - | County road north of Table Rock closed due to flooding. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Table Rock | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Table Rock | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lindsley House | under 500 feet | 1999 |
| Table Rock Public Square Historic District | under 500 feet | 1994 | |
 | E. F. Hempstead House | 5.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Pawnee City Carnegie Library | 5.5 miles | 2010 |
 | US Post Office-Pawnee City | 5.6 miles | 1992 |
| Pawnee City Historic Business District | 5.7 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88000931 in Record Group 79. |
| Pawnee 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.