Christ Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Christ Episcopal Church, at junction of 10th Ave. and Linden St. in Sidney, Nebraska, is a historic Shingle Style church that was built during 1886-87. Christ Church is a congregation of the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska.”
Wikipedia article Christ Episcopal Church (Sidney, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Cheyenne County · listed in 1994 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of 10th Ave. and Linden St., Sidney, 69162
When was it listed? October 1994
Category. building
City. Sidney city
Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
National Register reference number. 94001232 - 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

72 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Christ Episcopal Church between 2007 and 2020, burning about 511 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Fireworks	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.7 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Cheyenne County

Storms near this property

60 of 220 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sidney, the town this property stands in, in 220 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 165 hail, 32 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 6 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 1999	Hail	Sidney	$150,000	1.75 inch hail fell 10 miles northwest of Sidney, NE
June 1997	Hail	Sidney	$50,000	Several windshields broken and vehicles dented.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew over two tractor-trailer trucks on Interstate 80.
August 1996	Flash Flood	Sidney	$50,000	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Sidney	$40,000	Leaves stripped from trees. Cars damaged and siding on many homes damaged.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	$20,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew railroad cars off their tracks on an overpass in Sidney.
May 2000	Hail	Sidney	$20,000	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Sidney	$20,000	no account filed
October 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds of 62 MPH blew the roof off a construction company building at 1746 and deposited the roof 100 yards away. Winds also damaged several business signs, and split a tree truck which then partially blocked a residential street.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Sidney	$10,000	Heavy rainfall flooded some roads in the downtown Sidney area with water reported in some businesses and homes.
June 1998	Hail	Sidney	$6,000	A storm produced golfball size hail over southeast Cheyenne County.
August 1996	Hail	Sidney	$5,000	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Sidney	$1,000	Hail fell for five minutes. Residents were at Legion Park at the time. They were caught outside in the open and received bruises. Their vehicle sustained damage with broken side mirrors and shattered windsheild.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	$1,000	Windows were blown out of a house in Sidney around 1200MST.
July 1998	Lightning	Sidney	$1,000	Half of the town of Sidney was without power after a lightning bolt hit one of the main lines coming from a substation north of Sidney.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	UPR site 3 WNW of Brownson reported a 63mph wind gust.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	KSNY airport station gusted 64mph.
May 2025	Hail	Sidney	-	Public report of 1 in hail.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	Sidney ASOS reported this downburst wind gust.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	Sidney Airport ASOS station (KSNY) measured wind gust.
June 2023	Hail	Sidney	-	The public reported 2-inch diameter hail on the east side of the city of Sidney.
May 2023	Hail	Sidney	-	The public reported quarter sized hail in the city of Sidney.
June 2023	Hail	Sidney	-	Baseball sized hail was observed in the city of Sidney.
June 2023	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter sized hail was reported 1 mile N of Sidney via mPING.
June 2023	Hail	Sidney	-	The public reported 2-inch diameter hail 8 miles ESE of Brownson.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Sidney	-	Reports of flash flooding in Sidney on many city roads. One vehicle stuck in high water.
June 2023	Hail	Sidney	-	Received report on Facebook of hail east of Sidney.
June 2023	Hail	Sidney	-	Received report from mPING.
August 2023	Hail	Sidney	-	Public report of 1 inch hail 1 mile west of Sidney.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	Emergency Manager reported 7 inch diameter tree limb broken in Sidney from severe downburst winds.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	Emergency manager reported flipped pivot east northeast of Sidney as well.
May 2020	Hail	Sidney	-	Slight hail accumulation 1 mile west of Sidney, NE.
May 2020	Hail	Sidney	-	One mile north of Sunol, NE.
September 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Half dollar size hail covered the ground.
June 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail was observed southeast of Sidney.
June 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail was observed east of Sidney.
May 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Tennis ball size hail was observed northwest of Sidney.
May 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Tennis ball size hail was observed north of Sidney.
May 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail was observed west of Sidney.
May 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Hen egg size hail was observed at the Interstate 80 rest area west of Sidney.
May 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Dime to quarter size hail was observed at Sidney.
May 2018	Hail	Sidney	-	Half dollar size hail was observed east of Gurley.
June 2017	Hail	Sidney	-	Hen egg size hail was observed at Cabela's near Sidney.
September 2017	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail was observed at Sidney.
September 2017	Hail	Sidney	-	Half dollar size hail was observed at Sidney.
June 2017	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail covered the ground three to four inches deep at Sidney.
July 2017	Hail	Sidney	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was observed north of Sidney.
July 2017	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Sidney.
July 2017	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail was observed northwest of Sidney.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	Estimated 60 mph wind gusts were observed northwest of Sidney.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported at Sidney.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	A measured wind gust of 58 mph was reported a mile north of Sidney.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported a mile east of Sidney. There were numerous broken tree limbs.
August 2016	Hail	Sidney	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported 12 miles northwest of Sidney.
August 2016	Hail	Sidney	-	Marble to quarter size hail was reported at Sidney.
July 2016	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail was reported 10 miles south-southeast of Sidney.
July 2016	Hail	Sidney	-	Half dollar size hail covered the ground two miles north of Sidney.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sidney	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph east of Sidney.
June 2015	Hail	Sidney	-	Quarter size hail was observed seven miles south of Sidney.
June 2015	Hail	Sidney	-	Ping pong ball size hail was observed 10 miles southeast of Sidney.

Every storm recorded in Cheyenne 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

4 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
Sidney Historic Business District (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	2004
Sidney Carnegie Library	0.3 miles	1991
Fort Sidney Historic District	0.3 miles	1973
Deadwood Draw	2.1 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001232 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cheyenne County	All 10 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.