Third Sarpy County Courthouse

Built in 1922 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Third Sarpy County Courthouse is a historic building in Papillion, Nebraska, and the former courthouse of Sarpy County. Soderberg in 1922-1923, and designed in the Classical Revival style by architect William F.”
Wikipedia article Third Sarpy County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Sarpy County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1922, Neoclassical architecture.

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. 3rd St. between Washington and Jefferson Sts., Papillon, 68046
When was it listed? July 1990
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses of Nebraska MPS
Precinct. Papillion precinct
When was it built? 1922
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 90000964 - 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

77 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Third Sarpy County Courthouse between 2011 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Fireworks	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Sarpy 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Sautter Farmhouse	under 500 feet	1980
Big Papillion Creek Bridge	3.2 miles	1992
McCarty-Lilley House	4.0 miles	1978
Zweibel Farmstead	6.0 miles	2000
Fort Crook Historic District	6.7 miles	1976
Blacksmith Shop	6.7 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000964 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sarpy County	All 15 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.