Lincoln Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

“Lincoln Hotel in Franklin, Nebraska is a hotel that was built in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, but was removed from the Register in 2016.”
Wikipedia article Lincoln Hotel (Franklin, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 519 15th Ave., Franklin, 68939
Category. building
City. Franklin city
National Register reference number. 89000799 - 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

46 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Hotel between 2004 and 2019, burning about 804 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 August 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
1 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

60 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin, the town this property stands in, in 67 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 45 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2023	Hail	Franklin	$4,000,000	Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported across Franklin. There were numerous reports of shredded trees, broken siding and windows and damage to vehicles.
May 2002	Hail	Franklin	$700,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$150,000	Damage reports included tree limbs knocked down, a couple power poles knocked over resulting in power outages, roof and carport damage in town, and a storage unit damage approximately 2 miles south of town.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$100,000	Multiple trees blown down in Franklin. Multiple power lines blown down across Franklin County and several transformers knocked out.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$100,000	Nickel size hail fell with the wind.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$75,000	Wind gusts estimated at 65 MPH resulted in a roof being partially peeled back on a shed north of town and tree damage in Franklin. One tree in Franklin fell and landed on a building.
May 2012	Hail	Franklin	$75,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$75,000	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Franklin	$50,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph came along with the hail.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$50,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$50,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$50,000	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Franklin	$45,000	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Franklin	$30,000	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Franklin	$25,000	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Franklin	$25,000	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Franklin	$25,000	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Franklin	$25,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$25,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$20,000	no account filed
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Franklin	$15,000	An unofficial 24-hour rainfall amount was reported as 6.00 inches.
May 2007	Hail	Franklin	$10,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$10,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$10,000	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Franklin	$10,000	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Franklin	$5,000	no account filed
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Franklin	$5,000	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Franklin	$5,000	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Franklin	-	Hail ranging in size from dimes to half dollars was reported along and near this path.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Franklin	-	A CoCoRaHS observer measured 3.90 of rain between 6 p.m. and midnight CDT.
October 2017	Heavy Rain	Franklin	-	A 24-hour rainfall total of 3.16 inches was reported 2 miles east-northeast of Franklin.
July 2011	Heavy Rain	Franklin	-	A storm total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 3.43 inches was reported.
May 2010	Hail	Franklin	-	Hail reported covering Highway 10.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	Numerous tree limbs were knocked down, including some that were 4 to 6 inches in diameter. Other reports included a storage building being destroyed and damage done to a home's patio roof.
June 1995	Hail	Franklin	-	Hail, driven by winds of 45 mph, caused crop damage.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree and minor structural damage at the county fairgrounds.
June 2024	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
October 2023	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
March 2019	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
April 2019	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	no account filed
December 2016	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
October 2014	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
May 2004	Funnel Cloud	Franklin	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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

3 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
Franklin County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1990
Dupee Music Hall	0.2 miles	1985
Franklin Bridge	1.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000799 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin 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.