Stockholm Swedish Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Stockholm Swedish Lutheran Church and Cemetery is a historic building and cemetery in Shickley, Nebraska. The parish was established in 1875 by immigrants from Sweden.”
Wikipedia article Stockholm Swedish Lutheran Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2.5 mi. W and 0.5 mi. S of Shickley, Shickley, 68436
When was it listed? June 1995
Category. building
Township. Bryant township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 95000798 - 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

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stockholm Swedish Lutheran Church and Cemetery between 1997 and 2017, burning about 142 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
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
13 September 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District	ATLANTA
22 April 2017	Debris and open burning	91 acres	Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District	MALLARD HAVEN DECLARED ESCAPED PRESCRIBED FIRE
21 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District	KRAUSE

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this property

60 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shickley, the town this property stands in, in 81 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 45 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	$6,000,000	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 90 MPH, with damage generally confined to southern portions of Fillmore County. Along this path, multiple irrigation pivots were overturned, power poles were broken and trees were damaged. A number of grain bins were damaged or destroyed, outbuildings were damaged and one home suffered damage, mainly broken glass.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Shickley	$500,000	A swath of 5 to 9 inches of rain, with locally higher amounts, was reported primarily across the far southeastern corner of the county. County roads and bridges were likely damaged by the flooding.
May 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Shickley	$100,000	This short path tornado rapidly developed near the Salem Mennonite Church located southeast of Shickley, as seen by minor damage to the church grounds and to nearby center irrigation pivot systems. The tornado traveled north along or just west of Road 9, causing minor tree damage before lifting a mile or so north of Highway 74. The peak wind was estimated to be 70 MPH, based on the combination of the tree and pivot damage.
May 2012	Tornado (EF1)	Shickley	$100,000	This tornado crossed from Thayer County into Fillmore County, touching down approximately 2.5 miles northeast of Davenport and lifting approximately 3.5 miles northeast of Davenport. Along its path, a farmstead sustained house, garage and vehicle damage and a grain bin was destroyed. Two outbuildings, including a recently built barn, were destroyed and a center irrigation pivot was twisted. The maximum wind speed was estimated at 105 mph.
July 2023	Hail	Shickley	$100,000	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Shickley	$100,000	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Shickley	$100,000	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	$50,000	Wind gusts estimated near 70 mph resulted in an irrigation pivot being overturned and tree limbs of 4 to 5 inches in diameter being knocked down.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	$50,000	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Shickley	$50,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Shickley	$40,000	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Shickley	$25,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Shickley	$25,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Shickley	$20,000	Hail reported covering the ground.
June 2009	Hail	Shickley	$20,000	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Shickley	$20,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Shickley	$20,000	no account filed
September 2018	Flash Flood	Shickley	$10,000	In addition to the rain that had fallen across the area on the 1st, radar estimation and measured amounts showed an additional 3 to 5 inches of rain falling across portions of the warned area the night of the 2nd. Much of this rain fell over a short period of time, resulting in water running over some area roads, including portions of Highway 4 between Carleton and Davenport.
May 2007	Hail	Shickley	$10,000	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	$10,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Shickley	$10,000	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Shickley	$5,000	Quarter size hail reported covering the ground in Shickley.
May 2008	Hail	Shickley	$5,000	Hail was accompanied by 60 MPH winds.
May 2008	Hail	Shickley	$5,000	Hail was accompanied by estimated 50 MPH winds.
June 1998	Hail	Shickley	$5,000	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	$5,000	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Shickley	$2,000	Pea to quarter size hail was reported.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A swath of relatively-weaker winds affected the southern half of Fillmore County compared to the northern half. A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by mesonet stations located three miles northwest of Shickley and one mile northeast of Geneva. A few other gusts of 58 to 60 MPH were measured near and along this path. A few power outages were reported in the area.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	Wind gusts between 58 and 63 MPH were measured by several mesonet stations along this path. The peak gust of 63 MPH was measured by mesonet stations located four miles east-southeast of Geneva and three miles east-northeast of Geneva.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 71 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles southeast of Shickley.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southwest of Shickley.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A large swath of wind gusts estimated to be between 70 and 85 MPH, with localized gusts near 95 MPH, swept across far southeastern Clay County into southern Fillmore County. Along and near this path, widespread tree damage and power outages occurred, with emergency management reporting at least 250 pivots overturned. Numerous power poles were snapped, several grain bins were destroyed, and a few outbuildings were destroyed. The strongest of these gusts was focused in an area from near the Clay/Fillmore County line west of Shickley to approximately three miles northeast of Shickley. This area had the majority of the power pole, grain bin, and outbuilding damage. Mesonets in this area measured the following gusts: 78 MPH, four miles northeast of Shickley; 77 MPH, four miles south of Geneva; 76 MPH, three miles east of Shickley; 68 MPH, three miles south-southeast of Geneva.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles northwest of Shickley.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles south-southeast of Ong.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 60 MPH was recorded by mesonet station located three miles south-southwest of Shickley between 11:28-11:30 PM CDT. A wind gust of 58 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located three miles southeast of Shickley at 11:34 PM CDT.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 84 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles west of Shickley.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north of Shickley.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 79 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Shickley.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southwest of Shickley.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 61 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 4 miles north-northeast of Ong.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 66 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 2 miles west of Shickley. Emergency management reported roof and door damage to an outbuilding in Shickley.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 4 miles north of Shickley.
June 2019	Hail	Shickley	-	Hail ranging in size from quarters up to 2 inches in diameter was reported.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	A 58 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 2 miles west of Shickley.
April 2017	Hail	Shickley	-	Hail up to the size of ping pong balls covered the road near Shickley.
July 2014	Hail	Shickley	-	Hail was accompanied by 50 MPH winds.
April 2014	Hail	Shickley	-	This report was received via Twitter.
August 2007	Heavy Rain	Shickley	-	Four inches of rain was measured in Shickley.
September 2001	Tornado (F0)	Shickley	-	Tornado entered Fillmore county from Clay county.
July 2023	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	no account filed
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Shickley	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Shickley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 95000798 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.