Keystone Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Keystone Hotel is a historic hotel building in McCook, Nebraska. It was built as a hotel in 1922, and it was remodelled as a retirement facility in 1970.”
Wikipedia article Keystone Hotel (McCook, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Red Willow County · listed in 2001 · 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. 402 Norris Ave., McCook, 69001
When was it listed? July 2001
Category. building
City. McCook city
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01000710 - 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Keystone Hotel between 2003 and 2018, burning about 201 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	2

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
6 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
20 October 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Red Willow County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Keystone Hotel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Mccook West Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Red Willow County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCook, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McCook	1 hurt, $500,000	A Walmart store was damaged by strong winds. An eleven year old boy standing near a fireworks stand in the parking lot was thrown 40 yards and injured slightly with scrapes and bruises.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McCook	-	Six-inch diameter tree branches were downed.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	McCook	-	Thunderstorm outflow winds gusted to 58 mph, but caused no damage.
May 1996	Funnel Cloud	Mccook	-	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	McCook	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red Willow 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

5 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
Senator George William Norris House	0.3 miles	1967
H. P. Stutton House	0.4 miles	1978
Red Willow County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1990
McCook YMCA	0.4 miles	2000
McCook Public-Carnegie Library	0.5 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000710 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Red Willow County	All 8 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.