Fort McPherson National Cemetery

Built in 1863. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“Fort McPherson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery, located 4 miles (6 km) south of the village of Maxwell in Lincoln County, Nebraska. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 20 acres (8.1 ha), and as of 2014, it had over 10,000 interments.”
Wikipedia article Fort McPherson National Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2012 · category: District · built in 1863.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 12004 S. Spur 56A, Maxwell, 69151
When was it listed? March 2012
Category. district
Precinct. Maxwell precinct
When was it built? 1863
National Register reference number. 12000075 - 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

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fort McPherson National Cemetery between 2008 and 2019, burning about 172 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	7
Fireworks	2
Debris and open burning	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
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 July 2012	Fireworks	100 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 June 2010	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 March 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 February 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

60 of 99 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxwell, the town this property stands in, in 99 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 68 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 1998	Tornado (F1)	Maxwell	$250,000	Tornado was on the ground intermittently for a distance of 4 miles from 5 miles south southwwest of Maxwell (2 miles southwest of Ft McPherson Cemetery) to 2 miles west southwest of Maxwell near the Platte river. It struck the Marantha Bible Camp downing approximately 160 trees, destroying a small shed, and damaging several vehicles in the parking lot. Tornado then crossed Interstate 80, blew down two large billboards and struck a house 1 mile north of I-80 where a camper was also destroyed. Tornado then did minor damage to another home approximately 1 mile to the north northeast.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Maxwell	$50,000	A supercell produced a weak tornado that hit a farmstead shifting the garage off its foundation and damaging one wall of the garage, tearing off a small section of the house roof, breaking large limbs off surrounding trees, and lifting a nearby camper and throwing it into a fence.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	$15,000	One quarter mile of new power poles snapped. One was anchored down by a connection to a pivot.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	$15,000	Strong winds tore off part of a garage roof.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	$10,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 80 m.p.h. at exit 190 on U.S. Interstate Highway 80. Telephone poles were blown down, while damage occurred to a roof of a building and many large trees. In addition, a home had minor damage and several power poles were blown down three miles southeast of Maxwell.
May 2002	Hail	Maxwell	$10,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Maxwell	$10,000	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Maxwell	$8,000	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Maxwell	$4,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	$2,000	A small metal livestock shelter flipped over a barbed wire fence and landed on a gravel road. Several tree limbs of varying size were broken as well.
May 2008	Hail	Maxwell	$2,000	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Maxwell	$2,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Maxwell	$2,000	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Maxwell	$1,000	Public report of broken windshield in pickup truck. Public also reported that wild turkey roosting in tree were killed.
June 2004	Hail	Maxwell	$1,000	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Maxwell	$1,000	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Maxwell	-	Quarter sized hail covering the ground at this location.
July 2023	Hail	Maxwell	-	Public reported quarter size hail south of Maxwell.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	-	A weather station measured 78 mph wind gust and public reported shingles torn off a building and large tree limbs downed.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph in Maxwell.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	-	Numerous trees were downed and an irrigation pivot was flipped south of Maxwell.
June 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Maxwell	-	Brief touchdown observed. No damage was reported.
August 2018	Hail	Maxwell	-	Hail accumulated on the ground.
August 2018	Hail	Maxwell	-	Hail accumulated to 2 inches deep in spots.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	-	A large tree branch, approx. 9 inches in diameter, was downed.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	-	General public reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 70 mph.
April 2012	Hail	Maxwell	-	The hail fell in a several mile area northeast of Maxwell and covered the ground.
June 2011	Hail	Maxwell	-	Quarter to golf ball size hail occurred at time of report.
June 2011	Funnel Cloud	Maxwell	-	General public reported a funnel cloud 1 mile east of Maxwell along highway 30 which descended halfway to the ground before returning back up into the cloud.
June 2011	Hail	Maxwell	-	General public reported hail up to ping pong ball sized partially covered the ground.
August 2011	Hail	Maxwell	-	Golf ball size hail fell at exit 190 on U.S. Interstate Highway 80.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	-	Spotter reported numerous tree branches down in Maxwell that were 4 to 8 inches in diameter making driving difficult.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	-	The public estimated wind gusts at 60 to 70 mph that blew furniture and a propane tank around the yard.
October 2010	Lightning	Maxwell	-	One female sustained minor injuries from a lightning strike in Maxwell. The woman was inside a concession stand at a football game when lightning struck a nearby pole. The lightning traveled into the circuitry of a cooler in the stand which the woman had gone to open.
May 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Maxwell	-	Law enforcement reported a landspout tornado north and east of the Maxwell Interstate 80 interchange. The tornado touched down briefly in an open area.
May 2009	Funnel Cloud	Maxwell	-	Trained spotters reported a funnel cloud over the Maxwell Interstate 80 interchange.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Maxwell	-	Law enforcement reported water over State Spur Route 556A just north of Fort McPherson National Cemetery.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Maxwell	-	An off-duty NWS employee saw the tornado touch down briefly over an open field.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Maxwell	-	The tornado made a brief touchdown over open rangeland.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Maxwell	-	The tornado touched down in an open field near the Fort McPherson National Cemetery.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Maxwell	-	The tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Maxwell	-	A supercell moved across the area and produced a weak tornado that briefly touched down in open rangeland.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Maxwell	-	Numerous 8 inch diameter limbs were down.
May 2025	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
June 2025	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
June 2025	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Maxwell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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 12000075 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln 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.