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Photograph of S.S. Peter & Paul Catholic School
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SS Peter & Paul Catholic School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Peter & Paul Catholic School in Butte, Nebraska, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”

Wikipedia article S.S. Peter & Paul Catholic School (Butte, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Boyd County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of 2nd and Broadway Sts., SE corner, Butte, 68722
  • When was it listed? January 1992
  • Category. building
  • Township. Butte township
  • National Register reference number. 91001751 - 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of SS Peter & Paul Catholic School between 2006 and 2015, burning about 19 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 use4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 May 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this property

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 24 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodButte$3,000,000The Highway 11 bridge across the Niobrara River about 5 miles south of Butte is closed due to flooding. An ice jam produced large ice blocks that remained at the time of NWS storm survey.
March 2019FloodButte$500,000The NDOR web site reported street flooding in Butte as well as along Highway 12 from 3 miles south of Butte.
August 2008Flash FloodButte$100,000Up to 5 inches of rain fell with strong thunderstorms causing rapid runoff and significant damage to secondary roads and crops.
August 2014HailButte$10,000no account filed
May 2002HailButte$10,000no account filed
June 2008HailButte$5,000The large hail broke out windows in a home.
July 2020Flash FloodButte$1,000A cooperative observer reported street flooding throughout Butte.
June 2023Flash FloodButte-Sheriff reported water over roadways in, and around Butte. Water was also reported over Highway 12 near Butte.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindButte-Law enforcement reported 65 mph wind gusts in Butte.
July 2019Tornado (EF0)Butte-A brief tornado touched down in an open field with no reported damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindButte-A trained weather spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts in Butte.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindButte-Tree limbs down near Highway 12.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindButte-Several trees downed along a quarter mile stretch of an unimproved road.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindButte-The strong winds broke off very large tree branches.
June 2008HailButte-A large thunderstorm produced penny to half dollar size hail. The hail accumulated to 4 to 5 inches deep. Snowplows were needed to remove the hail from the highways.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindButte-Numerous 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs were broken off by the thunderstorm winds.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindButte-60 mph thunderstorm winds were reported at Butte.
July 2018HailButte-no account filed
June 2017HailButte-no account filed
June 2017HailButte-no account filed
May 2016HailButte-no account filed
June 2009HailButte-no account filed
March 2009HailButte-no account filed
March 2009HailButte-no account filed
June 2008HailButte-no account filed
June 2008HailButte-no account filed
June 2005HailButte-no account filed
July 2002HailButte-no account filed
August 2002HailButte-no account filed
August 2002HailButte-no account filed
July 2001HailButte-no account filed
July 2001HailButte-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindButte-no account filed
June 1999HailButte-no account filed
July 1997HailButte-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindButte-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindButte-no account filed
August 1997HailButte-no account filed
May 1996HailButte-no account filed
June 1994HailButte-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindButte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001751 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boyd CountyAll 3 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.