Fort Hartsuff

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. N of Elyria, Elyria, 68823
When was it listed? March 1978
Category. district
Township. Elyria township
National Register reference number. 78001716 - 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

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fort Hartsuff between 2007 and 2014, burning about 384 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 June 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 April 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	375 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this property

43 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elyria, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 35 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Elyria	$500,000	A machine shed located 11 miles west and 1 mile north of Ord was destroyed. A number of power poles were knocked down from this area and extended to approximately 4 miles west of Ord. Irrigation pivots were overturned approximately 4 miles west of Ord. The start time was an estimate from radar data.
May 2025	Hail	Elyria	$250,000	A couple waves of strong to severe storms dropped hail up to the size of ping pong balls.
May 2023	Hail	Elyria	$175,000	Hail up to the size of ping pong balls was reported along this path, ground was still partially white after sunrise.
June 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Elyria	$50,000	This tornado was witnessed by spotters in the area and maximum wind speeds were estimated at 85 mph. The tornado started in a grove of trees along the North Loup River. The tornado snapped a power pole and damaged a pivot as it traveled east southeast before lifting. A widespread area of sporadic wind damage extended south and east of the tornado, including across Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park. The buildings at the fort sustained no damage, but some trees on the property were damaged. At least one badly damaged tree was planted during the fort's active tenure of 1874 to 1881.
May 2025	Hail	Elyria	$50,000	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Elyria	$50,000	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Elyria	$50,000	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Elyria	$35,000	Hail between half dollar and golf ball size was reported.
July 2017	Hail	Elyria	$25,000	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Elyria	$25,000	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Elyria	$25,000	no account filed
August 2007	Flash Flood	Elyria	$15,000	Numerous reports of water over county roads and water running over Highway 11 at mile marker 87.
August 2009	Hail	Elyria	$5,000	Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported, was accompanied by wind gusts of 60 mph.
July 2000	Hail	Elyria	$2,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Elyria	$2,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Elyria	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH. Tree branches were downed and significant green snap of corn stalks was reported in the area.
June 2017	Hail	Elyria	-	NeRAIN observer reported quarter size hail.
August 2017	Heavy Rain	Elyria	-	A 24-hour precipitation amount of 5.50 inches was recorded 8 miles west of Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park.
August 2017	Heavy Rain	Elyria	-	A 24-hour precipitation amount of 3.62 inches was recorded 6 miles west of Elyira.
August 2017	Heavy Rain	Elyria	-	A 24-hour precipitation amount of 3.46 inches was recorded 3 miles west-northwest of Elyria.
July 2016	Heavy Rain	Elyria	-	Total rainfall over the past 24 hours was 3.55 inches, much of which fell in past 3-4 hours.
May 2025	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
July 2015	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
October 2010	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
October 2010	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Elyria	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bruha, Josef, and Anna Beran, House	2.8 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001716 in Record Group 79.
Valley County	All 6 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.