Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“The Commercial Hotel in Verdigre, Nebraska, also known as the Verdigre Hotel, is a hotel built in 1900 without indoor plumbing and without gas or electricity, but rather with use of kerosene lamps for lighting. With Verdigre the end of a railroad line and the hub of hog drives, the town needed more hotel space than was supplied by two hotels built previously.”
Wikipedia article The Commercial Hotel (Verdigre, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Knox County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90000563- 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
15 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Commercial Hotel, The
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 1 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
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Natural
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
Verdigre, the town this property stands in, in 56 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 36 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.
An NWS flood survey showed water depths in portions of town reach 1 to 3 feet. The flooding most affected the east portions of town, closest to the Verdigree Creek. Farm homes were flooded out. One was a fifth generation farm home. Property damage amounts for the entire county are in the Niobrara River flood entry.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph caused tree and other damage from around 16 miles west of Verdigre into Verdigre. Sixteen KV transmission lines/poles were downed 16 miles west of Verdigre causing loss of power in several surrounding towns for around 3 hours, with trees or large tree limbs downed from that location into Verdigre.
Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches caused flash flooding along sections of Verdigre Creek near Verdigre. A local park was flooded and the road leading into it was washed out. Farm fields and county roads were also flooded in the area.
Thunderstorms dropped very heavy rain over parts of Knox county, especially near and southwest of Verdigre and rainfall of 4 to 5 inches was reported at a few locations. The heavy rain washed out a bridge southwest of Verdigre and also washed a culvert several hundred yards downstream.
A brief tornado was observed by a trained spotter in far southwestern Knox county. Before the touchdown, the storm produced several funnel cloud reports as it tracked south along the Holt and Knox county line. The tornado did little or no apparent damage.
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.
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.
Block
