Glenville School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Glenville School in what is now Glenvil, Nebraska, United States was built in 1903 and extended in 1924 and 1950. It is a simple two-story brick building with classical details.”
Wikipedia article Glenville School (Glenvil, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1998 · 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. 401 S. Fifth St., Glenville, 68941
When was it listed? December 1998
Category. building
Township. Glenvil township
National Register reference number. 98001566 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Glenville School between 1994 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 April 1994	Smoking	1.0 acres	Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District	THEESON
28 March 1994	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District	MCMURTREY
27 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 February 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 February 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Glenvil Fire Hall and Town Jail	0.1 miles	2022
	Inland School	6.6 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001566 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay 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.