St. Michael's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Platte County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Third & Cedar Sts., Tarnov, 68642
When was it listed? November 1990
Category. district
Township. Burrows township
National Register reference number. 90001766 - 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.

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarnov, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	Emergency management report of a semi truck blow over east of Tarnov.
May 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Tarnov	-	This tornado developed about 3 miles east of Tarnov, knocking over center pivots and grain storage bins as it crossed agricultural fields. The tornado continued moving east across Platte County, damaging the outbuildings of a goat farm, and producing high-end EF-0 damage. The tornado moved east to damage the farmhouse, outbuildings and trees of another goat farm, producing EF-1 damage. The tornado then moved slightly north of east tracking into Colfax County. Peak winds during this segment of the tornado track were estimated to be 100 miles per hour. The maximum path width for this segment was measured to be 700 yards, with an average width estimated at 200 yards.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	Public reported an estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2023	Hail	Tarnov	-	Public reported via social media 2.5-inch hail.
July 2023	Hail	Tarnov	-	Public reported hail lasting approximately 20 to 25 minutes. First started as pea size and got progressively larger. The largest stones were baseball sized. It destroyed crops and gardens. There were numerous downed branches.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	A public personal weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	Power lines were blown down near Tarnov.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	A microburst caused a camper being pulled by a pickup truck to be blown over on Highway 81. Other damage included tree limbs down in Tarnov, a grain bin was blown off the foundation, and several center irrigation center pivots were blown over.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarnov	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 70 mph damaged or destroyed farm outbuildings and overturned numerous center pivots near Tarnov. Trees were toppled in the area as well.
April 2017	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Tarnov	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
	Humphrey City Hall	5.2 miles	1996
	First Welch Calvinistic Methodist Church and Cemetery	6.1 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001766 in Record Group 79.
Platte County	All 20 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.
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.