Saline County Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Saline County Bank is a historic building in the village of Western Nebraska, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It currently serves as the village's post office.”
Wikipedia article Saline County Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Saline County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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. E of SR 15 in downtown Western, Western, 68464
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. building
Precinct. South Fork precinct
National Register reference number. 90000568 - 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

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Saline County Bank between 2008 and 2020, burning about 21 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
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
1 March 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 November 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 January 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this property

47 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Western, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 26 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 8 injuries. 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 2004	Tornado (F2)	Western	8 hurt, $20,000,000	See description below
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	$60,000	Strong winds downed trees. One trees feel onto a pickup truck causing significant damage. A center pivot irrigation system was damaged two miles south of Western.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	A 62 mph wind gust was measured at a personal weather station. There was another 55 mph wind gust measured at a separate but nearly collocated station at the same time.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	A 63 miles per hour wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	A 60 miles per hour wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station. The time of this report was slightly adjusted forward to account for the delay in which the report was received and to better match radar data.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	A 60 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	Emergency manager reported moderate tree damage and powerlines down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 66 mph.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	Public reported roof torn off of grain bin.
June 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Western	-	This brief, narrow, tornado flattened corn, tore off roof panels of a shed, and collapsed some walls from a small shed.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	Three center pivot irrigation systems and large tree limbs were damaged by thunderstorm winds.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	The emergency manager relayed a report of a spotter estimated wind gust to 60 mph.
May 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Western	-	This tornado initially touched down in Jefferson county and tracked around 15.5 miles in total (nearly 10 of them in Saline county).
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at around 60 mph near Western.
June 2010	Hail	Western	-	The hail reached quarter-size a few minutes later.
June 2009	Hail	Western	-	Quarter-size hail was reported from around 1 mile southwest of Western to around 1 mile east of town.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at around 60 mph was reported in Western.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Western	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding along Swan Creek and its tributaries over southern Saline county. The water flooded numerous county roads and hundreds of acres of farmland. Rainfall was reported at 3 to 5 inches in the Swanton area.
May 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Western	-	This tornado did intermittent damage from 2 miles south of Western to around 3 miles southeast of Dorchester. As the tornado initially touched down south of Western, a camper and machine shed were destroyed and a center pivot overturned. In rural Saline county around 13 miles west of Wilber trees were twisted and uprooted and some building damage was noted and some debris was scattered up to 1/4 mile away from its original location. Farm outbuildings were severely damaged in the Tabor Hall area, which is 5 miles south of Dorchester, and numerous trees were uprooted or destroyed in the area which destroyed or severely damaged 8 headstones and monuments in a nearby cemetery. The final damage area was around 3 miles southeast of Dorchester where several pig feeders and livestock huts were destroyed and the roof of a farm outbuilding was removed and a barn destroyed.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph broke a power pole south of Western.
April 2006	Hail	Western	-	From the first of 2 storms this night that dropped 3/4 inch hail.
April 2006	Hail	Western	-	From the second of 2 storms that dropped 3/4 inch this night.
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Western	-	Large trees uprooted. Fence damaged.
April 2017	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
October 2016	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Western	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
February 2004	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Western	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Western	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000568 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saline County	All 17 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.