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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1991 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Philip and Addie Ellis Eberhardt Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 10 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Eberhardt, Philip and Addie Ellis, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 3 mi. N of US 6, Exeter, 68351
- When was it listed? March 1991
- Category. district
- Township. Exeter-Fairmont Consolidated township
- National Register reference number. 91000299 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
16 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Philip and Addie Ellis Eberhardt Farmstead between 2003 and 2019, burning about 224 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 55 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 32 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
36 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exeter, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 23 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2014 | Tornado (EF3) | Exeter | $7,500,000 | This tornado was the second to be rated an EF3 that affected south central Nebraska, starting in far northern Fillmore County before traversing a portion of York County and passing north of Cordova in Seward County. Damage along the track in Fillmore County was widespread, including one home which was totally destroyed. All 6 occupants took shelter in the basement. Another home suffered less significant damage, but outbuildings on the same property were destroyed. Also along the path of this tornado, and to the south of the path where rear flank downdraft winds occurred, numerous irrigation pivots were overturned, power poles were broken as well as trees and grain bins either damaged or destroyed. The strongest and widest time of this tornado occurred in Seward County, with a peak wind estimated to be 140 MPH and a maximum width of 2,640 yards, or 1.5 miles. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Exeter | $150,000 | This golf ball size hail report was received. This hail damaged the siding to a house. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Exeter | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Exeter | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Exeter | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Exeter | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Exeter | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Exeter | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Exeter | $3,000 | A brief landspout tornado touched down northeast of Exeter. Damage was minimal along its short path, with some tin taken off a roof and an auger turned over. The maximum wind speed was estimated to be 70 MPH. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $2,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some tree limbs of 2-4 inches in diameter blown down onto Highway 6. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | $2,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree damage in the area. Some limbs were down on Highway 6 between Roads 18 and 19. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles southeast of McCool Junction. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Exeter | - | A rainfall total of 3.77 inches occurred in Exeter. Street flooding was reported. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | Winds accompanied by very heavy rain. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Exeter | - | Thunderstorms producing hail up to golf ball-size and wind gusts up to 80 mph caused extensive crop damage across the southern portions of Sherman and Howard Counties, northern Buffalo County and western Hall County. Hardest hit was Sherman County, which sustained $3.5 million in crop damage. Several grain bins were destroyed while numerous trees and power lines were downed. Two tornadoes were also spawned by the storms. In Grand Island, the roof of a high school building was damaged by the thunderstorm winds, and 1,000 vehicles and numerous houses suffered hail damage. Hail accumulated into drifts. The hail, combined with rainfall amounts up to four inches in less than one hour, caused minor street flooding in Grand Island. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Exeter | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exeter | - | no account filed |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fairmont Creamery Company Building | 7.3 miles | 1983 |
 | Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Exchange Building in Fairmount | 7.3 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000299 in Record Group 79. |
| Fillmore County | All 20 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.