BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Red Willow County · listed in 1993 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Second-Generation Norden Bombsight Vault
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Second--Generation Norden Bombsight Vault - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Off US 83 NW of McCook at former McCook Army Air Base, McCook, 69001
- When was it listed? June 1993
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Significant Relic Components of US Army Air Fields in Nebraska MPS
- Precinct. Coleman precinct
- National Register reference number. 93000534 - 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 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Second-Generation Norden Bombsight Vault in 2018, burning about 215 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 | 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 | Debris and open burning | 215 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
5 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCook, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | McCook | 1 hurt, $500,000 | A Walmart store was damaged by strong winds. An eleven year old boy standing near a fireworks stand in the parking lot was thrown 40 yards and injured slightly with scrapes and bruises. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | McCook | - | Six-inch diameter tree branches were downed. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | McCook | - | Thunderstorm outflow winds gusted to 58 mph, but caused no damage. |
| May 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Mccook | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | McCook | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93000534 in Record Group 79. |
| Red Willow County | All 8 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.