Ella Eager House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Seward County · listed in 2024 · 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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 915 Walnut St., Beaver Crossing, 68313
When was it listed? January 2024
Category. building
Precinct. Precinct M
National Register reference number. 100009512 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ella Eager House between 2004 and 2018, burning about 111 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
21 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 May 2018	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 March 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 March 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 December 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Seward County

Storms near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Crossing, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver Crossing	$500	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph snapped off the top of a tree. The tree then fell over into a backyard.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver Crossing	-	Law enforcement reported a semi that had flipped along Interstate 80 near the Utica exit.
April 2022	Tornado (EFU)	Beaver Crossing	-	Trained spotters reported with video of a tornado that developed and moved across the region between 378 and 398 Road near O Street.
May 2014	Tornado (EF2)	Beaver Crossing	-	This tornado developed rapidly after the Beaver Crossing tornado as the supercell continued to move northeast. The tornado quickly strengthened to EF2 and completed destroyed several large outbuildings as it crossed Pioneers and Van Dorn Roads. The tornado turned more northeast as it crossed A street downing power lines and snapping trees. The tornado crossed Interstate 80 about a half mile west of the of the Highway 15 interchange where a semi tractor trailer was overturned. The tornado weakened and turned east as it moved north of the Interstate and produced mainly minor tree and power line damage.
May 2012	Hail	Beaver Crossing	-	The hail was mostly dime-size, but a few stones up to half dollar-size were observed.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver Crossing	-	Home weather equipment of a trained weather spotter measured thunderstorm wind gusts at 58 mph.
June 2001	Hail	Beaver Crossing	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Beaver Crossing	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Beaver Crossing	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver Crossing	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Beaver Crossing	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver Crossing	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Beaver Crossing	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Beaver Crossing	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seward 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 100009512 in Record Group 79.
Seward County	All 9 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.