Morrill County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Morrill County Courthouse, located on Main St. between 6th and 7th Sts. in Bridgeport, Nebraska, was built in 1909. It is a Classical Revival style building designed by the Eisentraut Company of Kansas City.”
Wikipedia article Morrill County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Morrill County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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. M St. between 5th and 6th Sts., Bridgeport, 69336
When was it listed? January 1990
Category. district
Also known as. County Courthouses of Nebraska MPS
Precinct. West Camp Clarke precinct
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Eisentraut, Colby, & Pottinger
National Register reference number. 89002227 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Morrill County Courthouse between 2007 and 2018, burning about 9 acres in total. 2 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
12 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 June 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 June 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
12 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 June 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Morrill County

Storms near this property

60 of 128 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeport, the town this property stands in, in 128 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 78 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 6 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
April 2008	Hail	Bridgeport	$750,000	Hail from 3/4 inch to around 2 inches in diameter fell over and around Bridgeport, Nebraska, with large hail reported to have fallen in Bridgeport for almost one half hour. The hail damaged cars and windows.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$300,000	Two 70 foot tall grain bins blown off and away from their foundations. A 100 foot tall radion tower blown over. Two to three foot diameter trees blown over and snapped off. Power poles snapped off, primarily in the center of town.
April 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Bridgeport	$300,000	A tornado moved in a northwesterly direction primarily over open country, but did severely damage or destroy a house and outbuildings along county road 78 west of U.S. Highway 385.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$50,000	High winds damaged roofs and irrigation equipment in and near Bridgeport, NE.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$40,000	Wind-driven hail event with widespread damage across the Bridgeport area. Broken windows, crops stripped, large trees and power poles downed.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$30,000	Wind gusts up to 65 mph damaged trees and blew down power lines in Bridgeport, NE.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$25,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$25,000	no account filed
June 1996	Tornado (F1)	Bridgeport	$20,000	no account filed
July 2010	Flash Flood	Bridgeport	$10,000	Three to four feet of water over steets in south part of town. Water entering homes, primarily due to poor storm darianage.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Bridgeport	$5,000	The following roads were reported flooded and closed, CR94, CR98, CR100, CR101, 104 and 106.
May 1998	Hail	Bridgeport	$5,000	A storm produced baseball size hail 8 miles southwest of Bridgeport.
July 1994	Hail	Bridgeport	$5,000	Large hail and strong thunderstorm winds damaged the siding and roof of a home and broke numerous windows in vehicles.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$5,000	Large hail and strong thunderstorm winds damaged the siding and roof of a home and broke numerous windows in vehicles.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Bridgeport	$2,000	Emergency manager reported the North Platte River at Bridgeport Bridge was overflowing its banks and there was massive flooding at the Bridgeport Dam and bridge.
August 1997	Hail	Bridgeport	$2,000	no account filed
June 2010	Flash Flood	Bridgeport	$1,000	Flash flooding reported on County Road 106.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Bridgeport	$1,000	County Road 104 north of Bridgeport flooded along with low lying areas of Dugout Creek.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$500	A 5 inch diameter tree blown over.
June 2025	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Public reported hail in excess of 2 inches.
June 2023	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Trained spotters reported quarter sized hail from 5 miles south of Bridgeport.
June 2023	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Social media report of tennis ball sized hail stones. Damage to car windshield occurred.
July 2023	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Twitter report of 1.5 inch hail 5 miles north of Bridgeport.
July 2023	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Twitter report of 1.5 inch hail.
May 2022	Hail	Bridgeport	-	One inch of hail accumulation on the ground.
July 2020	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Penny to quarter sized hail falling.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Multiple trees uprooted at Bridgeport Cemetery.
August 2019	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Hail accumulated to over one inch deep.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Thunderstorm winds measured by a KNEB automated weather station.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Minor tree damaged was produced by the thunderstorm winds.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were observed southwest of Bridgeport.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph were observed south of Bridgeport.
August 2017	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Ping pong ball size hail was observed north of Bridgeport.
August 2017	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Bridgeport.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported north of Bridgeport.
September 2016	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Baseball size hail was reported six miles south of Bridgeport.
September 2016	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Tennis ball size hail was reported eight miles southwest of Bridgeport.
September 2016	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Tennis ball size hail was reported six miles southwest of Bridgeport.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	The UPR sensor at Bridgeport measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
September 2016	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Three inch diameter hail was reported six miles southeast of Bridgeport.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Estimated wind gusts of 70 to 75 mph were reported at Bridgeport. Numerous trees were down.
August 2016	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported at Bridgeport.
August 2016	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Ping pong ball size hail was reported a mile west of Bridgeport.
August 2016	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Quarter size hail damaged a trailer and house in Bridgeport.
July 2015	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Golf ball size hail was observed three miles east-northeast of Bridgeport.
August 2015	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Ping pong ball size hail was observed seven miles northeast of Bridgeport.
May 2015	Flood	Bridgeport	-	Two inches of rain from a slow moving thunderstorm produced flooding in Bridgeport. Water was running over the curbs. Highway 385 was blocked by high water with traffic detoured.
May 2015	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles in Bridgeport.
May 2015	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed in Bridgeport.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Wind tossed a picnic table 20 feet and destroyed it.
May 2015	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Golf ball size hail was observed four miles west of Bridgeport.
May 2015	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Quarter inch hail was observed 12 miles south-southwest of Bridgeport.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were observed southeast of Bridgeport.
August 2014	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Quarter size hail was reported three miles east of the intersection of County Road 62A and US Highway 385.
August 2014	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Ping pong ball size hail was observed six miles north of Bridgeport.
August 2014	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Hen egg size hail was observed three miles north of Bridgeport.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Bridgeport	-	Three and nine-tenths inches of rain was reported.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Bridgeport	-	Three and three-quarters inches of rain was reported.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Bridgeport	-	A spotter measured 2.45 inches of rain.
June 2014	Hail	Bridgeport	-	Quarter size hail was observed in Bridgeport.

Every storm recorded in Morrill 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Camp Clarke Bridge Site	4.4 miles	1974
	Courthouse and Jail House Rocks	4.7 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002227 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morrill County	All 5 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.