Fred and Minnie Meyer Sudman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Fred and Minnie Meyer Sudman House, located at 490 Vincent Ave. in Chappell, Nebraska, is a historic house that is a notable local landmark. It is a 42-by-36-foot wood-frame house on a concrete masonry foundation.”
Wikipedia article Fred and Minnie Meyer Sudman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Deuel County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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. Sudman, Fred and Minnie Meyer, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 490 Vincent Ave., Chappell, 69129
When was it listed? December 1990
Category. building
Precinct. Chappell precinct
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90001770 - 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fred and Minnie Meyer Sudman House in 2018, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Deuel County

Storms near this property

60 of 160 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chappell, the town this property stands in, in 160 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 117 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 4 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2004	Tornado (F1)	Chappell	2 hurt, $70,000	Shortly after the tornado touched down 10 miles ESE of Chappell, it hit a farmstead near the intersection of Highway 27 and Interstate 80. Three old, unanchored trailer homes were picked up and moved with two of them completely destroyed. A metal shed was tossed 40 yards and numerous trees were broken or uprooted. As the tornado crossed Interstate 80, it overturned a vehicle pulling a U-Haul trailer. Two children in the automobile were taken to an area hospital, treated for minor injuries and released. The tornado width increased to 1/8 of a mile as it moved northeast of the interstate. Approximately 8 miles WNW of Big Springs, a center pivot irrigation system was overturned, power poles were broken and a couple of old outbuildings lost their roofs. Baseball size hail also fell on the west side of the storm damaging 2 law enforcement vehicles about 12 miles west of Big Springs.
May 2000	Hail	Chappell	$100,000	Extensive damage done to houses and vehicles in Chappell.
June 1998	Hail	Chappell	$50,000	no account filed
May 2008	Flash Flood	Chappell	$25,000	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding to roads on the west side of Chappell and to roads near the fairgrounds. Lodgepole Creek flowed out of its banks and caused lowland flooding.
August 2002	Hail	Chappell	$20,000	Hail broke several windows at two farmsteads.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	$12,000	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts overturned a semi trailer on Interstate 80 near Chappell.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	$10,000	Wind gusts estimated at 80 MPH flipped a camper along Interstate 80 near mile marker 92.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	$10,000	Tractor trailer blown over on Interstate 80.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	$10,000	Damage to outbuildings and pole barns.
July 2004	Hail	Chappell	$10,000	Windows were broken, siding on homes was damaged, and crops were shredded by the large hail.
August 2002	Hail	Chappell	$10,000	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Chappell	$10,000	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Chappell	$10,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Chappell	$10,000	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Chappell	$10,000	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Chappell	$8,000	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Chappell	$6,000	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Chappell	$5,000	The large hail was accompanied by strong winds.
June 2009	Hail	Chappell	$5,000	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Chappell	$5,000	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Chappell	$2,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Chappell	$2,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Chappell	$1,000	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Chappell	$1,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	$500	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed 6 to 8 inch diameter tree branches.
July 2023	Hail	Chappell	-	Public reported quarter size hail northeast of Chappell.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	A mesonet site west of Chappell measured a 64 mph wind gust.
May 2022	Hail	Chappell	-	Quarter sized hail piled up to a three inch depth at this location.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	A Union Pacific mesonet station measured a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Chappell	-	About 8 to 10 inches of water piled up in the streets in as little as 10 minutes. A rain gauge recorded 1.5 inches.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	No damage reported.
June 2017	Hail	Chappell	-	Thirty to forty mile per hour winds also accompanied the hail.
June 2016	Hail	Chappell	-	Wheat crop was severely damaged buy the hail.
June 2016	Hail	Chappell	-	Crop damage from the hail.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	The 911 call center reported that thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph occurred in Chappell.
April 2015	Hail	Chappell	-	The hail covered the ground.
September 2015	Hail	Chappell	-	Winds to 50 MPH were also reported.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 MPH were estimated with no damage reported.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 70 mph.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Winds were estimated at 52 knots.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Wind gust of 60 mph reported 3 south of Chappell.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Winds reported to 60 mph with nickle size hail.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Power lines down at county roads 185 and 22.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	No major damage was reported from this wind gust.
August 2012	Funnel Cloud	Chappell	-	A trained spotter reported seeing a funnel cloud reach half way to the ground.
July 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Chappell	-	Tornado briefly touched down in open range land with no damage reported.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Porch was blown off of house from damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	Chappell	-	Nickel size hail fell for 5 minutes.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph caused a trampoline to take flight and hit a house damaging an outside faucet and gutter. Trampoline tumbled downhill from the house.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Chappell	-	One inch of rain fell in 20 minutes with some pea size hail.
June 2011	Hail	Chappell	-	Public reported golf ball sized hail located 8 miles northwest of Chappell.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 m.p.h. in Chappell.
April 2010	Hail	Chappell	-	Penny size hail covered the ground 2 miles east of Chappell.
April 2010	Hail	Chappell	-	Nickel size hail was reported by a trained spotter in Chappell at 242 pm MST.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Chappell	-	Highway 385 closed near Chappell due to water over the road.
July 2010	Flood	Chappell	-	Highway 30 in far western Deuel County is reduce to one lane of traffice due to flooding. Significant water is standing in the surrounding farmland.
July 2010	Flood	Chappell	-	Law enforcement reported around a dozen roads in the vicinity of Lodgepole Creek have water flowing over them. Water was up to the southern edge of the grain elevators on the southwest side of Chappell.
July 2010	Flood	Chappell	-	Law enforcement reported water over portions of the Chappell Golf Course, Road 167 is closed south of Highway 385.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Chappell	-	Strong winds gusts broke off 5 inch diameter tree limbs.
June 2009	Hail	Chappell	-	The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain.

Every storm recorded in Deuel 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Deuel County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001770 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Deuel County	All 5 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.