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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Belle Prairie Township Hall & Strang Town Hall-Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Belle Prairie Township Hall & Strang Town Hall--Jail - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Main St., Strang, 68444
- When was it listed? November 1991
- Category. building
- Township. Belle Prairie township
- National Register reference number. 91001752 - 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
13 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Belle Prairie Township Hall & Strang Town Hall-Jail between 2008 and 2018, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strang, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Strang | $150,000 | Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches fell over a short period of time, resulting in flash flooding over portions of Fillmore and Thayer Counties. In Bruning, a storm total amount of 4.35 inches was reported. Local law enforcement reported water running over portions of Highway 14 approximately 4 miles west of Milligan. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $125,000 | Wind gusts were estimated at 70 MPH, with damaged reports including 3 empty grain bins blown off their foundation, an unsecured trailer rolled off its foundation, and some irrigation pipe blown from their location. |
| June 2003 | Heavy Rain | Strang | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall in the southern part of Fillmore county forced water over the highway in Strang. Low lying fields were inundated with water. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Strang | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in roof damage at the school building in Strang. Public reported damage to outbuildings and large trees downed in the area. A wind gust of 59 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Strang. A wind gust of 62 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located three miles east of Strang. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Strang | $50,000 | Widspread flooding in southeast Fillmore County. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Strang | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Strang | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $10,000 | Some tree damage reported across town. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Strang. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Strang. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile north-northwest of Strang. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southeast of Strang. |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 3 miles east of Strang. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 65 MPH, with tree limbs as large as 1 foot in diameter knocked down. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged a garage. A two by four board from this garage pierced the siding of the house on the same property. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strang | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Strang | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Strang | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Strang School District No. 36 | 0.1 miles | 1992 |
 | Ohiowa Public School | 7.0 miles | 2005 |
 | Fillmore County Courthouse | 7.7 miles | 1978 |
 | Warner's Filling Station and House | 7.7 miles | 2006 |
 | Auditorium, The | 7.8 miles | 1988 |
 | US Post Office-Geneva | 7.9 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91001752 in Record Group 79. |
| Fillmore 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.
- 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.