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Spade Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Spade Ranch is a large cattle ranch located in the Sandhills of western Nebraska between the towns of Gordon and Ellsworth. Established in 1888 by Bartlett Richards, the ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”

Wikipedia article Spade Ranch (Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Sheridan County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. NW of Ellsworth, Ellsworth, 69340
  • When was it listed? February 1980
  • Category. district
  • Precinct. South Sheridan precinct
  • National Register reference number. 80002464 - 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 Spade Ranch between 2007 and 2012, burning about 88 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 August 2012Natural35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2007Fireworks1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 June 2012Natural50 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

60 of 91 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellsworth, the town this property stands in, in 91 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 68 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$12,000Thunderstorm winds tore off shingles on several roofs in the Ellsworth area.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 80 MPH destroyed an outbuilding and uprooted trees at this location.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$10,000Several power poles were blown down.
August 2007HailEllsworth$8,000Hail of varying sizes from pea to golf ball fell east of Ellsworth and was accompanied by heavy rain that reduced visibility to less than 1000 feet.
May 2001HailEllsworth$5,000no account filed
June 2000HailEllsworth$5,000no account filed
August 2002HailEllsworth$3,000no account filed
June 1999HailEllsworth$3,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$2,000Thunderstorm winds at 60 mph blew out windows and tore off roof shingles.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 60 MPH, resulted in tree damage at this location.
April 2007HailEllsworth$1,000no account filed
April 2007HailEllsworth$1,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindEllsworth$1,000no account filed
August 2025HailEllsworth-Quarter size hail with 40 to 50 mph winds reported at this location.
April 2025HailEllsworth-Report via spotter network.
July 2023HailEllsworth-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail near Ellsworth.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-A trained spotter estimated 70 mph wind gusts near Ellsworth.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Public estimated winds of 60 to 70 mph.
July 2023Tornado (EFU)Ellsworth-Tornado touched down over open country just south of Ostrander Road in rural Sheridan County. The tornado then traveled approximately one and a half miles southeast, lifting just north of 365th trail. Multiple videos and photos were received of the tornado and no damage was observed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2021HailEllsworth-Hail size was estimated as quarter size.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-A cooperative weather observer estimated winds of at least 70 mph and reported trees bent over and a loss of power.
July 2019HailEllsworth-Public reported hail up to ping pong ball size.
July 2019HailEllsworth-Public reported quarter size hail.
September 2019HailEllsworth-Nickel to quarter sized hail reported at this location.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-No damage reported.
July 2016Funnel CloudEllsworth-Funnel reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Ellsworth-At 1556 MST a brief tornado touched down in rural Sheridan County with no damage reported. The tornado was rated an EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with a peak wind of 65 MPH.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-Tree limb damage occurred at this location.
June 2011HailEllsworth-Public reported hail up to half dollar size.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-A forty foot tall cedar tree was uprooted as well.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-A Nebraska Department of Roads automated sensor on Highway 2 measured the strong wind gust.
August 2007HailEllsworth-Cooperative observer reported pea to quarter size hail mixed with heavy rain but very little wind.
August 2025HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2024HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEllsworth-no account filed
June 2024HailEllsworth-no account filed
September 2024HailEllsworth-no account filed
September 2024HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2023HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2023HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2022HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2022HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2020HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2020HailEllsworth-no account filed
August 2019HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2019HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2018HailEllsworth-no account filed
July 2017HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2015HailEllsworth-no account filed
June 2014HailEllsworth-no account filed
July 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
July 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed
May 2013HailEllsworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002464 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan CountyAll 8 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.