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Near South, NE
The Near South, between G Street and South Street from 13th to 27th, holds many of Lincoln's grand historic homes. Old brick and early concrete basement walls here have taken a century of clay and frost, so leaks at mortar joints and sideways cracks are common reasons to call.
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Woods Park, NE
Woods Park is known as the Historic Bungalow District, with bungalows built around the 1910s and 1920s. Basements this age were built before modern drains and damp proofing, so the inspection looks at water and wall cracks together.
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Country Club, NE
Country Club, which includes Sheridan Boulevard, was the first Lincoln addition to leave the street grid for winding streets, and it is listed on the National Register as the Boulevards district. Older homes like these deserve a check of every basement wall, not only the one with the crack.
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North Bottoms, NE
The North Bottoms sits in the Salt Creek floodplain just north of the University of Nebraska downtown campus. Its homes went up mostly in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and some foundations were raised after past floods. High ground water makes drains and sump pumps a common fix here.
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Havelock, NE
Havelock grew up around the Burlington railroad shops, was founded in 1890 and joined Lincoln in 1930. Older block and brick basements in a neighborhood this old are prone to stair-step cracks and walls that lean in.
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University Place, NE
University Place, along 48th Street near Nebraska Wesleyan, was its own town until Lincoln annexed it in 1926. Older homes with wrap-around porches often have porches and additions on shallower footings than the main house, and cracks where the two meet are common.
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Bethany, NE
Bethany started as Bethany Heights in 1890, home to Cotner College, and became part of Lincoln in 1922. Older basements here often need crack sealing and better drainage after decades of wet springs on clay soil.
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College View, NE
College View grew up around Union College, founded in 1891, and joined Lincoln in 1929. Homes this old often have block or early poured walls, and a free inspection checks them for bowing as well as leaks.
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Highlands, NE
The Highlands is a newer neighborhood in northwest Lincoln, north of I-80 near the airport. Newer basements can still crack as the soil packed back against the walls settles over the first years.
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Waverly, NE
Waverly, northeast of Lincoln, grew from about 3,277 people in 2010 to 4,279 in 2020. Many newer homes here sit on the same swelling clay as Lincoln, and downspouts and yard slope are part of every inspection.
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Hickman, NE
Hickman, south of Lincoln, grew about 57 percent from 2010 to 2020, to 2,607 people. With so many new basements, settling soil around the walls and poured-wall shrinkage cracks are common early calls.
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Bennet, NE
Bennet, southeast of Lincoln, was founded in 1871 when the railroad arrived and grew from 719 people in 2010 to 1,082 in 2020. It has a mix of old homes in town and new homes on the edge, both on clay soils that hold water in spring.
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Malcolm, NE
Malcolm, northwest of Lincoln, was platted in 1877 and sits between Branched Oak Lake to the north and Pawnee Lake to the south. Homes on open rural lots need water carried well away from the basement wall.
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Crete, NE
Crete, in Saline County southwest of Lincoln, is where USDA set the type location for Crete soil, a loess soil with a subsoil up to about 55 percent clay that swells when wet. The Big Blue River runs through town, and Crete has declared a flood emergency when the river ran near record highs.
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Seward, NE
Seward, the county seat of Seward County west of Lincoln, had about 7,643 people in 2020. When the Big Blue River topped its levees in one flood, residents were pumping out basements, so sump pumps and drainage are worth a close look here.
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