Built in 1938 (Moderne architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The United States Post Office in downtown Crawford, Nebraska is a historic edifice built to house the Crawford branch of the United States Postal Service. It was built in 1938-1939 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1992, as part of the Nebraska Post Offices Which Contain Section Artwork MPS.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Crawford, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Dawes County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1938, Moderne architecture, by Louis A. Simon.
Also known as. Nebraska Post Offices Which Contain Section Artwork MPS
Precinct. Precinct 11
When was it built? 1938
Architectural style. Moderne architecture
Architect. Louis A. Simon
National Register reference number.92000477- 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
32 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 32 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Crawford
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance
9
Natural
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Fireworks
3
Debris and open burning
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Crawford, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 51 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
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
3 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.
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.
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