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Photograph of E. F. Hempstead House
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E. F. Hempstead House

Built in 1887 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Hempstead House is a historic two-and-a-half-story house in Pawnee City, Nebraska. It was designed in the Queen Anne style, with "porch walls faced with imbricated shingles and pierced with vents of open latticework." Moreover, "Columns above support oval shaped openings ending in circular finials at the entries." The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 19, 1982.”

Wikipedia article E. F. Hempstead House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Pawnee County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1887, Queen Anne style.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Hempstead, E. F., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 14th and H St., Pawnee City, 68420
  • When was it listed? October 1982
  • Category. building
  • Precinct. Precinct 1, Pawnee No. 1
  • When was it built? 1887
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 82000611 - 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

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of E. F. Hempstead House between 2007 and 2020, burning about 266 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 March 2011Debris and open burning40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 March 2007Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2009Debris and open burning30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 March 2007Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 March 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this property

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pawnee City, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPawnee City$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph destroyed a silo and did tree damage north of Pawnee City.
May 2025HailPawnee City-Public report of hail estimated up to 1.25 in diameter. Report received via mPING.
May 2024HailPawnee City-Emergency Management reported quarter sized hail.
May 2023Tornado (EF1)Pawnee City-Tornado started on the northeast side of Pawnee City where the baseball fields sustained damage. The tornado continued northeast and destroyed a grain bin and ended in a field 1 1/2 miles southwest of Table Rock.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-Storm chaser reported 4-inch tree limbs blown down.
June 2021Flash FloodPawnee City-Emergency manager reported flooding and 2.15 inches of rain since 16:45 and 2.75 inches since midnight.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Pawnee City-A brief tornado destroyed several outbuildings and removed a wrap-around porch from a house.
June 2020HailPawnee City-Emergency manager reported 1.25 inch hail.
May 2019HailPawnee City-In Pawnee City.
October 2019Funnel CloudPawnee City-A funnel cloud approximately 5 miles east of Pawnee City was reported by the county emergency manager.
October 2017HailPawnee City-Mostly peas size to one inch diameter hail fell east of Pawnee City. The largest stones were as big as ping pong balls.
October 2017Heavy RainPawnee City-This is a heavy rainfall report.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-Several 6-8 diameter tree limbs were down around town. Very heavy rain accompanied the storm as well.
June 2011HailPawnee City-Hail around quarter-size fell in and a little south of Pawnee City.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph flattened crops and downed 4 inch in diameter tree limbs.
June 2009HailPawnee City-Hail just under baseball-size fell from just west of Pawnee City into town. The hail fell for 5 to 10 minutes before it started raining as it gradually shrunk to golf ball-size and smaller. The hail damaged some crops, vehicles and homes in the area.
April 2008HailPawnee City-The time was estimated.
August 2007HailPawnee City-The hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 50 mph.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-Thunderstorm winds estimated by a spotter at 60 mph were accompanied by dime size hail.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at least 60 mph downed a large tree in Pawnee City and also downed many tree limbs. The winds also blew a window out of a vacant building, and a few cars were damaged by fallen tree limbs. Trees and power poles were reported broken on county roads 2 miles west and 2.5 miles north of town.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs in town which damaged playground equipment at a park.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew over a tree which briefly closed a county road southwest of Pawnee City.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-Three outbuildings destroyed.
April 2017HailPawnee City-no account filed
June 2011HailPawnee City-no account filed
June 2009HailPawnee City-no account filed
July 2006HailPawnee City-no account filed
September 2001HailPawnee City-no account filed
September 2001HailPawnee City-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPawnee City-no account filed
June 1998HailPawnee City-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodPawnee City-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodPawnee City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Pawnee City Carnegie Library0.3 miles2010
US Post Office-Pawnee City0.5 miles1992
Pawnee City Historic Business District0.5 miles1994
Pawnee County Courthouse0.6 miles1990
Lindsley House5.2 miles1999
Table Rock Opera House5.2 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000611 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pawnee CountyAll 12 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.