Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“The Valley County Courthouse, on 16th St. between L and M Sts. in Ord, Nebraska, United States, is a Beaux Arts-style courthouse designed by architect William F. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”
Wikipedia article Valley County Courthouse (Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.89002235- 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 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Valley County Courthouse
between 2012 and 2020, burning about 171 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
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Valley County Courthouse: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ord, the town this property stands in, in 106 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 70 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 heavy rain.
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.
Damage from wind gusts near and in excess of 80 MPH caused considerable damage to area grain bins and outbuildings, and also overturned pivots. At the Ord Airport, the roof was peeled off of one of the hangars, and one side of the building was ripped away.
Measurements and radar estimations showed rainfall totals as high as 5-7 inches within the area area, with the highest totals in northwestern and south central portions of the county, including a CoCoRaHS station with 5.87 six miles west of Elyria and an unofficial public total of 6.25 nine miles west-southwest of Elyria. Emergency management reported that several rural roads were under water, with at least one road southwest of Elyria completely washed out.
Wind gusts estimated to be near 85 MPH resulted in roof damage at a home, with a 8 to 10 foot section being removed. Some of the insulation was found in trees to the south of the home.
Lightning struck a tree, breaking off a large limb approximately 20 inches in diameter. This limb landed on 2 vehicles, causing significant damage to the cab of a pickup and the passenger compartment of a car.
Lightning struck the Evangelical Free Church during a thunderstorm this Monday evening. The lightning strike hit the bathroom vent and went to the basement. It made three holes in the roof and knocked off a big portion of the ceiling. It also knocked nails out of the ceiling and ruined several pieces of electrical equipment. (Source: Ord Quiz Newspaper 4/11/2007).
Another brief tornado was reported by a storm chaser from an isolated super cell storm in northern Valley county. No damage was noted, as the tornado occurred across open county and for a very short time.
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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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