Hodson Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 712 Main St., Ashland, 67831
When was it listed? September 2019
Category. building
Township. Center township
National Register reference number. 100004456 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hodson Hotel between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,688 acres in total. 1 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	3
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	7.5 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
29 July 2006	Natural	1,000 acres	Kansas Counties	MILLER RANCH
17 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Clark County	22
7 April 2020	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
17 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2018028
7 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Clark County	2017026
5 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1,600 acres	Kansas Forest Service	3
2 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Clark County	201713

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

60 of 154 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 154 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 113 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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
April 1994	Tornado (F2)	Ashland	$50,000	Tornado touched down briefly and passed through the Roger Giles Farmstead. House windows were broken out, farm machinery was wrecked, and the house was moved on its foundation. All but two outbuildings on the farmstead were damaged.
August 1996	Lightning	Ashland	$50,000	no account filed
September 1994	Hail	Ashland	$20,000	A severe thunderstorm with one-inch diameter hail and winds greater than 52 knots (60 mph) knocked down large tree branches and produced some roof damage seven miles southwest of Ashland at 1615 CST.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$10,000	12 power poles blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$5,000	Power poles blown down on highway 34.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	$4,500	Roof torn of a 15 x 30 shed and a tree was uprooted.
June 1996	Hail	Ashland	$3,800	no account filed
September 2025	Hail	Ashland	-	A public report of 3 inch hail. 2.75 inch hail was reported at the same time and place.
September 2025	Hail	Ashland	-	A public report of about 3.5 inch hail.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Emergency Manager reported multiple trees down and building damage in Ashland. Time estimated from radar.
September 2016	Hail	Ashland	-	Hail covered the ground.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Ashland	-	This tornado was making contact over open range land. It was witnessed by storm spotters and the Emergency Manager.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Numerous power poles were blown down in Ashland, as well as north and east of town.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Several large trees were blown down by the high wind. A 7 inch diameter tree limb fell on a police car and caused substantial damage. The entire town of Ashland was without power.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Several trees were blown down. Many power lines were down from trees blowing into them.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Six inch diameter tree branches blown down in the northeast side of Ashland.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Tree damage in Ashland.
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Ashland	-	Rainfall of 4.75 inches was reported 3 miles north of Ashland.
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Ashland	-	Rainfall of 4.75 inches fell in about 2 hours.
May 2006	Hail	Ashland	-	50 to 60 mph winds occurred right before the hail fell.
September 2006	Tornado (F0)	Ashland	-	This was a brief tornado that did not hit anything to cause damage.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	This wind was reported by a USGS data logger.
June 2005	Hail	Ashland	-	The hail lasted 10 minutes.
May 2002	Hail	Ashland	-	The hail covered the ground.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Seventy to eighty mile per hour wind persisted for about 20 minutes.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
May 1997	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	Water over highway 94 1 mile east of Clark Sate Lake.
April 1994	Tornado (F0)	Ashland	-	Tornado touched down briefly over open range land.
May 2024	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
September 2016	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	no account filed
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	no account filed
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Ashland Grade School	0.2 miles	2005
Stockgrowers State Bank	0.2 miles	1972
Girl Scout Little House	0.4 miles	2015
Stein House	0.7 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004456 in Record Group 79.
Clark 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.
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.