Hartington Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Cedar County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Broadway Ave. from Centre St. to Railroad St.; Main St. From Madison Ave. to Alley W of Broadway Ave., Hartington, 68739
When was it listed? July 2019
Category. district
City. Hartington city
National Register reference number. 100004136 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Hartington Downtown Historic District between 2002 and 2019, burning about 244 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
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
8 July 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 June 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 April 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 April 2019	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 April 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Cedar 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 Hartington Downtown Historic District: 2 producers. 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
	Backus Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Ronald Liese Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this property

60 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartington, the town this property stands in, in 66 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 33 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 4 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 2014	Flash Flood	Hartington	$200,000	The nearly stationary supercell over Cedar County produced very heavy rain and flash flooding. Flooding was reported over State Highway 57 south of Hartington. In addition to this flooding, numerous secondary gravel roads were flooded and impassable during the late evening on June 17th from torrential rains.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Hartington	$150,000	Rainfall of 9.5 to 10.5 inches fell on the Hartington area in two days, 7/19 and 7/20/99 with lesser amounts across the rest of Cedar county. The 2nd day of rain caused the most damage due to flash flooding with 2 county bridges destroyed and highways 12 and 81 northwest of Hartington flooded. Damage was sustained along the Norwegian Bow Creek and the West Bow Creek. Besides bridge and road damage, several homes were flooded. Later in the afternoon on the 21st, high water along the West Bow Creek approached Bow Valley and Wynot flowing over some gravel roads and forcing sandbagging of several homes.
September 1997	Lightning	Hartington	$75,000	Lightning struck power lines outside a telephone company facility. The resulting power surge did significant damage to telphone equipment at the facility.
May 1999	Tornado (F1)	Hartington	$50,000	Farm buildings were heavily damaged as well as a garage, part of a roof of a house and part of a center irrigation pivot.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	$10,000	no account filed
June 2025	Hail	Hartington	-	Emergency manager report of hail measured up to 1 in diameter.
April 2024	Hail	Hartington	-	The office received a public report of 1 inch hail.
May 2024	Hail	Hartington	-	The office received a report from the 911 Call Center for golfball sized hail 2 miles to the northwest of Hartington, NE.
May 2024	Hail	Hartington	-	The office received a report from social media of golfball sized hail that fell in far eastern Cedar County, Nebraska.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	A trained spotter reported a 71 miles per hour wind gust.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Emergency manager reported 4 center pivots overturned.
October 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Received several reports of strong wind gusts of 70 to 80 mph near Hartington and other areas of southern Cedar County. Visibility was low due to blowing dust.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Public reported trees uprooted and/or snapped.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Emergency manager reported tree damage on the golf course.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Police reported 1.5 inch hail and power lines down.
May 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Hartington	-	Emergency manager reported a tornado. The tornado started in a field northwest of the Hartington Golf Course and moved southeast. The tornado crossed Nebraska Highway 57 and ended in a residential section of town. A couple large tree limbs were ripped off oak trees in the golf course. Some roofs of homes sustained loss of shingles. Corn stubble from the corn field northwest of the golf course was deposited across parts of Hartington.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Law enforcement estimated 70 mph winds downed large tree limbs.
July 2018	Hail	Hartington	-	The hail shredded crops and trees.
April 2011	Hail	Hartington	-	Hail up to golfball-size fell from the left mover of a supercell that split southwest of the county. The hail was reported in and north of the Hartington area.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Emergency management estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts reached around 60 mph in the area.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed trees and destroyed at least one farm outbuilding in the Hartington area.
June 2009	Hail	Hartington	-	The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 to 65 mph were reported from 2 miles west through 2 miles east of Hartington. The winds caused a roof to cave in on a house in Hartington and big trees were uprooted with lots of branches and trees down all over town. Some irrigation systems were overturned west of Hartington and a trailer there was tipped over and a shed destroyed. East of town some trees were downed and a fence destroyed.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Wind equipment on local cable TV measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph. Rainfall of 2.16 inches also fell from the storm.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph downed large tree limbs in the area.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph downed a large tree which blocked Highway 15 for a time southeast of Hartington.
June 2006	Hail	Hartington	-	Leaves were reportedly stripped off of trees in the area.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	A severe thunderstorm that intensified over the Hartington area downed trees and caused other tree damage from Hartington to several miles east of town. Winds were estimated to be at least 70 mph. Very heavy rain accompanied the storm which caused some street flooding in town.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Hartington	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of many county roads in Cedar county, mainly between Hartington and Belden. Water also briefly crossed, and caused the temporary closure of Highway 20 west of Laurel, Highway 57 south of Hartington and Highway 15 north of Laurel. Several county road culverts had to be replaced, and one county road 1/2 mile east of the junction of 571 Ave and 879 road was washed out. Rainfall amounts included 3.5 inches 5 miles north of Laurel, 3.1 inches at Wynot and 2.5 inches at Hartington, all falling in around a 2 hour period.
June 2003	Hail	Hartington	-	The hail damaged cars in town and also drifted like snow.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Hartington	-	A brief touchdown of a tornado in an open field southeast of Hartington was reported by law enforcement personnel.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Estimated by a trained weather spotter.
April 2001	Tornado (F0)	Hartington	-	A brief tornado touchdown was reported by a law enforcement official in open country southwest of Hartington.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Thunderstorm winds broke large tree limbs and uprooted trees from northwest of Hartington into Hartington.
June 2000	Hail	Hartington	-	See the narrative for 6 NW of Crofton in Knox county beginning at 1955 CST.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Hartington	-	Flash flood covered a county road with mud and other debris.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Tree branches downed.
August 1997	Hail	Hartington	-	A hailstorm moved across the central and southern portions of Cedar county causing significant damage or destruction to crops. It was estimated that there was 1.5 million dollars damage to the corn crop and 1.5 million dollars damage to the soybean crop. The most significant damage was confined to an area six miles wide and 14 miles long affecting 65,280 acres of farm land west and southwest of Hartington. Other significant crop damage occurred in the Coleridge area and to the north of Randolph.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Tree limbs and power lines blown down.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Strong winds destroyed a garage.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartington	-	Trees were blown down in Hartington.
July 2017	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Hartington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Hartington Hotel	under 500 feet	2003
City Hall and Auditorium	0.1 miles	1983
Cedar County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1990
Hartington Carnegie Library	0.2 miles	2019
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church Complex	6.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004136 in Record Group 79.
Cedar County	All 12 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.