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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Knox County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Pospeshil Theatre
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 123 Broadway, Bloomfield, 68718
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. Opera House Buildings in Nebraska 1867-1917 MPS
- Township. Morton township
- National Register reference number. 88000935 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pospeshil Theatre between 2000 and 2015, burning about 729 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 700 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 February 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 January 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
49 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 29 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Tornado (F1) | Bloomfield | 1 hurt, $500,000 | A small tornado touched down about four and a half miles south of Bloomfield. One person was injured as he took cover in a ditch as the tornado approached. Debris from a building fell on him and broke his leg. There was damage to outbuildings and irrigation systems on more than a dozen farms. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | $500,000 | A severe thunderstorm with strong downburst winds passed over Bloomfield. A small hangar at the airport was destroyed, some buildings were damaged around town, and a few trees were blown down. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | A swath of severe hail started in Bloomfield, Nebraska with half dollar sized hail being reported by the public on the north side of town. As the storm moved northeast, severe hail fell in mainly rural areas before entering the town of Crofton where golf ball sized hail was reported. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Estimated wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour were reported by the public resulting in numerous tree limbs blown down. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Ping-pong ball sized hail was reported to have lasted about 20 minutes. The office received public reports of damage to vehicles, roofing and vegetation in the area. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | The office received a report of golf ball sized hail from a trained spotter. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | The office received multiple public reports from the same location in Bloomfield over a 17 minute time span of hail ranging from 1 to 2 inches in diameter. Roof damage was also noted in the area. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Trained spotter reported large trees blown down. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph downed trees and did farm outbuilding damage from around Wausa to near Bloomfield. Downed trees also caused some home damage in the area. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Hail up to softball-size was reported several miles northeast of Bloomfield. The hail caused crop damage and also some vehicle, home and farm equipment damage in the area. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Thunderstorm winds reached around 60 mph in the Bloomfield area. Hail up to softball-size was reported just northeast of the region. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Hail up to around 3 inches in diameter was reported north of Bloomfield. The hail lasted for around 15 minutes and the larger hailstones were very jagged. However, because most of the larger hail fell before winds picked up, damage was minimal according to the Bloomfield Monitor. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Hail may have reached quarter-size according to a public report. The hail was accompanied by winds of at least 40 mph which caused some crop damage in the area. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Hail up to baseball-size was reported during the storm which also produced wind gusts |estimated at 70 mph. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at close to 70 mph caused fairly widespread tree damage in the Bloomfield area. Large trees and branches fell on a few homes and vehicles causing damage and crops and irrigation systems in the region also sustained damage. This storm also produced hail up to baseball-size. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | A few hailstones reached nickel-size. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Bloomfield | - | Trees and two or three large power line support structures were damaged in the area and a center pivot was flipped by a tornado that caused damage in about a 200 yard wide path. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Bloomfield | - | The tornado damaged the roof of a hog confinement when it intially touched down. The tornado continued northward damaging trees, buildings and power lines. At least one center pivot was damaged along with some home damage. The worst damage appeared to be 3 miles west of Crofton near where it crossed Highway 12. This tornado ended just about a mile west where another tornado started producing damage. In fact, two tornadoes were on the ground at the same time from this supercell, along with a possible landspout or weak tornado to the northeast. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Mainly between golfball size and 3.25 inches in diameter, but a few up to softball size. The hail was very jagged and fell from the supercell that produced several nearby tornadoes. A Sheriff Department's cruiser was damaged from the hail and there were reports of cattle seriously injured in the area. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Bloomfield | - | The tornado initially touched down about 1.5 miles southeast of Bloomfield where it flipped a center pivot. Tree and outbuilding damage was noted for several miles north of that point, including a few dead livestock. The damage path became less clear north of town, but some minor debris was noted until about 4 miles north of town. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported in and around Bloomfield. According to a local newspaper report the hail caused some severe crop damage in the area. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees near Bloomfield. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Bloomfield | - | Rainfall of several inches in an hour or two caused flash flooding near Bloomfield and around the Bazile Creek area. The flooding covered a few roads in the area. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Hail up to baseball size was reported southwest through west of Bloomfield. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Hail up to 1 inch in diameter covered the ground near Bloomfield. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph broke large tree limbs in Bloomfield and stripped some cornfields near town. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph damaged trees, including knocking several 8 inch in diameter ones over, which downed power lines in Bloomfield. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed large tree limbs and power lines in town. |
| October 2001 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | Hail lasted for 15 minutes and was up to 1 inch in diameter. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Bloomfield | - | Rainfall of around 5 inches backed up storm sewers in Bloomfield and caused flash flooding along Little Bazile Creek closing the main street through town for several hours. Santee's water supply/well field was also flooded. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged numerous buildings on the south side of town. Two highline poles were broken off and a few tree limbs were blown down. One tree was pulled out of the ground. Some power poles were snapped off north of town. |
| April 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Bloomfield | - | A small tornado started on the southeast fringes of town. It picked up a fiberglass storage tank east of town and carried it north for over a mile. The tank was deposited onto a truck, bounced off of a car and then into a garage. The truck was totalled, the car damaged and the garaged was heavily damaged. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Bloomfield | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88000935 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Knox County | All 14 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.