Bruha, Josef, and Anna Beran, House

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1885.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Elyria, Burwell
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. building
Township. Elyria township
When was it built? 1885
National Register reference number. 90000564 - 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

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bruha, Josef, and Anna Beran, House between 2012 and 2020, burning about 119 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 June 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 February 2015	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 December 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 October 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bruha, Josef, and Anna Beran, House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ulrich Pit and Plant No. 1 & 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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

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
Fort Hartsuff	2.8 miles	1978
People's Unitarian Church	7.0 miles	1984
Valley County Courthouse	7.1 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000564 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.