Table Rock Public Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Pawnee County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Luzerne and Houston Sts., Table Rock, 68447
When was it listed? July 1994
Category. district
Precinct. Precinct 3, Table Rock
National Register reference number. 94000655 - 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

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Table Rock Public Square Historic District between 2004 and 2020, burning about 555 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	9
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 April 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 April 2007	Arson/incendiarism	110 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 April 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 March 2020	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 March 2020	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 March 2020	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 March 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this property

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Table Rock, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Table Rock	$150,000	Three buildings destroyed.
May 1996	Lightning	Table Rock	$40,000	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Table Rock	-	Trained spotter report of hail measured up to 1.75 inch in diameter near Elk Creek, NE.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Table Rock	-	Trained spotter measured gust of 60 mph.
May 2023	Hail	Table Rock	-	Storm chaser reported 2.75-inch hail.
May 2023	Hail	Table Rock	-	Public reported via mPing for 3.25-inch hail.
May 2023	Hail	Table Rock	-	Public sent multiple photos on social media of 4.5-inch hail.
May 2023	Hail	Table Rock	-	Public reported 1.25-inch hail via mPing.
May 2023	Hail	Table Rock	-	Trained spotter reported 2.75-inch hail.
June 2020	Hail	Table Rock	-	Report from mPing of 1.75 inch hail.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Table Rock	-	A trained spotter reported 6 power poles snapped and leaning from west to east.
May 2019	Heavy Rain	Table Rock	-	The COOP Observer reported 2.40 inches of rain north of Table Rock.
August 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Table Rock	-	A tornado developed in the extreme northeast part of Pawnee County from a supercell moving southeast. The tornado only occurred for a short distance in Pawnee County before moving into Richardson County. Little damage occurred in in Pawnee County but the tornado was given an EF1 rating based on how extensive the crop damage was from the tornado.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Table Rock	-	The cooperative observer reported 1.90 inches of rain fell in 35 minutes.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Table Rock	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph took down 5 power poles west of Auburn.
May 1999	Flash Flood	Table Rock	-	County road north of Table Rock closed due to flooding.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Table Rock	-	Large tree limbs downed.
June 2018	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Table Rock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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
Table Rock Opera House	under 500 feet	1988
Lindsley House	0.1 miles	1999
E. F. Hempstead House	5.3 miles	1982
Pawnee City Carnegie Library	5.5 miles	2010
US Post Office-Pawnee City	5.7 miles	1992
Pawnee City Historic Business District	5.7 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000655 in Record Group 79.
Pawnee County	All 12 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.