Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“The Hotel DeFair, at NE 2 and Main St. in Hyannis, Nebraska, and also known as the Hyannis Hotel, was built in 1898 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). According to its NRHP nomination, it once was considered to be the best hotel and restaurant in western Nebraska.”
Wikipedia article Hotel DeFair, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001132- 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
8 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hotel DeFair
between 2007 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
4
Debris and open burning
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hyannis, the town this property stands in, in 112 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 88 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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.
Numerous large trees were snapped off with a few of them falling onto parked vehicles or into buildings. An airplane hanger was destroyed, a portion of a roof was blown off a lumberyard storage shed, and 31 power poles were also broken off by the intense thunderstorm winds.
Multiple reports of funnel clouds from the public were received by the Grant County sheriff's office. One of the funnels was photographed by a storm spotter in Hooker County.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down a power pole southwest of Whitman. A chimney was blown down northwest of Hyannis. In Hyannis 1.4 inches of rain occurred in 10 minutes.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down a power pole southwest of Whitman. A chimney was blown down northwest of Hyannis. In Hyannis 1.4 inches of rain occurred in 10 minutes.
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
1 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.
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.
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