Lett Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Ash in Yuma, Colorado, now known as the Tumbleweed Hotel, is a historic building, built in 1916, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was the longest operating hotel in Yuma, and had served 73 years at the time of its NRHP listing in 1990.”
Wikipedia article Lett Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Yuma County · listed in 1990 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 204 S. Ash, Yuma, 80759
When was it listed? January 1990
Category. building
Census division. Yuma
National Register reference number. 89002378 - 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

75 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Lett Hotel between 1993 and 2020, burning about 713 acres in total. 6 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	50
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	350 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
29 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yuma Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma Rural Fire Protection District)	UNKNOWN
29 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yuma Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma Rural Fire Protection District)	UNKNOWN
21 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Yuma Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma Rural Fire Protection District)	UNKNOWN
5 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
25 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
22 August 2013	Smoking	under an acre	Yuma Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma Rural Fire Protection District)	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lett Hotel: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yuma County

Storms near this property

60 of 245 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yuma, the town this property stands in, in 245 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 174 hail, 54 thunderstorm wind, 7 tornado, 7 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
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	$1,000,000	Yuma County Emergency Manager reported sixty-eight power poles blown down along CR 48 north of the city of Yuma. Damage was estimated at 1 million dollars.
June 1998	Hail	Yuma	$1,000,000	Hail up to baseball size damaged windows, windshields, roofs, siding, and vehicles. Hail started as dime size at 2100 MST.
June 2008	Hail	Yuma	$350,000	This is the second major hail storm to impact the city of Yuma during the same afternoon. Golfball to baseball sized hail fell, and smaller hail under a half inch in diameter covered the ground to a depth of 1 foot. Some house windows were broken during this event.
June 2008	Hail	Yuma	$350,000	Large hail pelted Yuma Colorado and surrounding areas for over 30 minutes, causing hail to accumulate to a depth of 5 inches. Many hailstones were quarter sized but several reports of golf ball sized hail were received. Some trees were stripped of leaves and small branches, some windows were broken and roofs sustained damage.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	$135,000	The Emergency Manager reported 8 or 9 power poles down between County Road 45 and County Road 47. Highway 59 southbound was also closed in that area for restoration of the powerlines.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Yuma	$100,000	A second intense supercell dropped hail and extremely heavy rain on the city of Yuma. Street flooding was common throughout town with field flooding and minor basement flooding noted. All retaining ponds in town were reported to be filled to capacity.
June 2010	Hail	Yuma	$50,000	A supercell thunderstorm produced reports of a swath of hail from 1 west of Yuma to 3 east of Yuma with multiple reports of 2.75 inch diameter hail. In addition, it is estimated that over 26,000 acres of crops were damaged or destroyed. Many windows were broken in homes and vehicles.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	$50,000	Forty five power poles were either downed or damaged in the Yuma area as strong winds accompanying a supercell thunderstorm produced large hail, flooding rainfall and damaging outflow winds.
June 1998	Hail	Yuma	$50,000	At Eckley, golfball to baseball size hail damaged windows, vehicles, and roofs. At 4S of Eckley, a house suffered window and skylight damage and a calf sustained a spinal cord injury due to hail.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	$10,000	Power outage in Yuma as thunderstorm winds blew through.
May 2024	Flash Flood	Yuma	$2,000	Spotter reported street flooding and basements being flooded in Yuma. Pictures from other sources show hail accumulating to around a foot deep. The combined affects of deep hail and heavy rainfall likely overwhelmed the storm drains, preventing the heavy rainfall from draining away. Unclear how many basements were flooded, or how much damage was caused by the flooding.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	$2,000	Several trees and small branches were reported down around town. There were also sporadic power outages in the town of Yuma.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	$2,000	Peak winds were estimated at 60 mph. Small limbs were down throughout town resulting in minor power outages in Yuma as limbs fell across power lines.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Yuma	$1,000	The Yuma County Emergency Manager reported street flooding in town. A few garages were reported to have flood water in them as the water in the street was going over the curbs. The EM also reported 0.83 inches of heavy rain fell in 20 minutes in town that caused the flooding.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	$500	Windows broken at home and tree limbs down along with power outages. Six inch hail depth on road.
August 1996	Hail	Yuma	$100	no account filed
June 2025	Hail	Yuma	-	Trained spotter reported hail ranging from pea up to nickel in size.
July 2025	Hail	Yuma	-	Quarter size hail was reported in the town of Yuma by a trained spotter.
July 2025	Hail	Yuma	-	The public reported a good variety of hail sizes with quarter estimated to be the largest.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	The mesonet site KCOYUMA34 on WeatherUnderground reported the wind gust.
June 2025	Hail	Yuma	-	A trained spotter reported nickel sized hail and estimated wind gusts around 50 mph.
July 2024	Hail	Yuma	-	Storm chaser at location and time reported ongoing quarter size hail.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	Weatherlink site Yuma Dairy recorded a 80 mph wind gust. An additional Weatherlink site named DVI09409 just west of Yuma Dairy recorded a 71 mph gust as well.
August 2024	Flood	Yuma	-	Dispatch reported 3 feet of water on the roadways.
May 2024	Hail	Yuma	-	Report and photos via social media of accumulating hail and hail drifts in Yuma. Biggest stones baseball size or larger with most stones 1 to 2.25 inch. Trained spotters in Yuma also reported hail up to around 2 inches.
May 2024	Hail	Yuma	-	Two inch hail reported on the southwest side of Yuma and lasted approximately 15 minutes.
May 2024	Hail	Yuma	-	Report and photos via social media of hail up to golf ball size but mostly smaller stones with drifts estimated from photos to be up to around 1 foot tall. Wind driven hail broke windows and damaged siding.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	The Mesonet station yum02 reported a gust of 67 MPH.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	A storm survey was conducted across the town of Yuma. Multiple locations across the town suffered damage from straight line winds. Some of the damage surveyed included extensive damage to vinyl siding to a motel, suggesting 74 MPH wind gusts occurred.
May 2024	Hail	Yuma	-	Emergency manager reports fire department had tennis to softball size hail about 1 mile south of Yuma.
May 2024	Hail	Yuma	-	Report and photos via social media (X), varying hail sizes up to golf ball size. Lots of windows broke out, hail covering ground.
May 2024	Hail	Yuma	-	Reports via social media of hail up to golf ball sized.
May 2023	Hail	Yuma	-	Report received of hail up to a penny in size at location.
June 2023	Hail	Yuma	-	Report of hail near nickel size.
June 2023	Hail	Yuma	-	Report of 1.5 inch diameter hail.
June 2023	Hail	Yuma	-	Report of nickel sized hail.
June 2023	Hail	Yuma	-	Spotter report of 0.75 inch ongoing in Yuma.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	Reported via Weather Underground station KCOYUMA17.
July 2022	Hail	Yuma	-	The hail ranged from a quarter of an inch to dime size on the west side of Yuma.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	Yuma AWOS K2V6 measured a 61 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	A trained spotter observed an estimated 60 mph wind gust associated with the outflow from a severe thunderstorm moving into Yuma County.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph was recorded by K2V6 AWOS at location.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	An Emergency Manager reported a car in a ditch on State Highway 59 about 5 miles north of Yuma with zero visibility.
August 2019	Tornado (EFU)	Yuma	-	A member of the public reported a brief tornado was observed about 6 miles NW of Yuma. They sent a picture confirming their observation to NWS Goodland.
May 2018	Hail	Yuma	-	The hail ranged from dime to quarter size.
June 2018	Hail	Yuma	-	The hail in Yuma ranged from quarter to baseball in size.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	The winds lasted 15-30 seconds.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	Time is radar estimated. Thunderstorm winds blew over a lean-to.
May 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Yuma	-	The Emergency Manager for Washington county reported a tornado at CR 46 and CR F intersection. No damage was reported with this tornado. The tornadic circulation on radar indicated the tornado moved northeast during its lifetime.
September 2016	Hail	Yuma	-	The hail ranged from pea to nickel in size.
September 2016	Hail	Yuma	-	Dime size hail fell.
May 2016	Hail	Yuma	-	Hail up to quarter size fell during the storm.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	Irrigation pivots were blown over, trees were broken off around the house and a large two-pole post for the electrical transmission line was broken off.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	A large swath of straight-line wind damage occurred from the Washington/Yuma county line east to CR Q between CR 45 and CR 47. The maximum path width was 3,520 yards. The most significant wind damage was roughly one mile of double wooden electrical transmission poles broken off along CR E between CR 46 and CR 47. Significant damage was also surveyed at a hog farm 8 miles NE of Yuma where several outbuildings were destroyed. Homes in the same area as the hog farm also sustained damage.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Yuma	-	Power lines were blown down in town.
April 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Yuma	-	A weak, short-lived landspout tornado was reported by a spotter about 1-2 miles southwest of Yuma. The tornado lasted a couple minutes before dissipating.
June 2015	Hail	Yuma	-	Hail 3/4 to one inch in diameter fell.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Yuma	-	Water and mud was reported to be crossing Highway 34 north of Road 39. A land owner near this location reported parts of his property were under three to four feet of water. A few miles further east flood waters were also reported over Highway 59 just north of town.
June 2014	Hail	Yuma	-	Time of report estimated from Doppler radar.
August 2014	Hail	Yuma	-	Time of report estimated from Doppler radar.

Every storm recorded in Yuma 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 89002378 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yuma County	All 5 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.