Grand Island FCC Monitoring Station

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Grand Island FCC Monitoring Station was a federal radio monitoring station located near Grand Island, Nebraska. It was the first federal radio monitoring station built in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Grand Island FCC Monitoring Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Hall County · listed in 1973 · category: Site · built in 1930.

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

The listing

Address. 5 mi. W of Grand Island near NE Spur 430, Grand Island, 68803
When was it listed? January 1973
Category. site
Township. Center township
When was it built? 1930
National Register reference number. 73001064 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Grand Island FCC Monitoring Station between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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	1
Debris and open burning	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
15 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Hall 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 Grand Island FCC Monitoring Station: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone. 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
	Grand Island Mill	Talc-Soapstone	Producer

Every working recorded in Hall County

Storms near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Island, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 1996: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 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
August 1995	Hail	Grand Island	$1,500,000	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Grand Island	$1,000,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Island	$100,000	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Grand Island	$50,000	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Island	$5,000	no account filed
August 1995	Tornado (F0)	Grand Island	$2,000	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Island	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 64 mph at Grand Island. The roof of a convenience store on the east side of town received considerable damage.
May 1996	Hail	Grand Island	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Grand Island	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Island	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Grand Island	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Island	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Island	-	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Grand Island	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hall 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

6 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
Soldiers and Sailors Home	3.9 miles	2021
Heinrich Giese House	4.1 miles	2006
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer	4.3 miles	2015
Grand Island VA Hospital	4.3 miles	2018
William Stolley Homestead and Site of Fort Independence	4.3 miles	1972
Grand Island Senior High School	4.4 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001064 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hall County	All 28 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.