BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Pawnee County · listed in 1994 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Pawnee City Historic Business District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by 5th, 7th, F and G Sts., Pawnee City, 68420
- When was it listed? February 1994
- Category. district
- Precinct. Precinct 1, Pawnee No. 1
- National Register reference number. 94000066 - 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
10 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Pawnee City Historic Business District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 221 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 March 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 March 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 13 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 November 2009 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
33 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pawnee City, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | $2,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph destroyed a silo and did tree damage north of Pawnee City. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1.25 in diameter. Report received via mPING. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | Emergency Management reported quarter sized hail. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Pawnee City | - | Tornado started on the northeast side of Pawnee City where the baseball fields sustained damage. The tornado continued northeast and destroyed a grain bin and ended in a field 1 1/2 miles southwest of Table Rock. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | Storm chaser reported 4-inch tree limbs blown down. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Pawnee City | - | Emergency manager reported flooding and 2.15 inches of rain since 16:45 and 2.75 inches since midnight. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Pawnee City | - | A brief tornado destroyed several outbuildings and removed a wrap-around porch from a house. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | Emergency manager reported 1.25 inch hail. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | In Pawnee City. |
| October 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Pawnee City | - | A funnel cloud approximately 5 miles east of Pawnee City was reported by the county emergency manager. |
| October 2017 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | Mostly peas size to one inch diameter hail fell east of Pawnee City. The largest stones were as big as ping pong balls. |
| October 2017 | Heavy Rain | Pawnee City | - | This is a heavy rainfall report. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | Several 6-8 diameter tree limbs were down around town. Very heavy rain accompanied the storm as well. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | Hail around quarter-size fell in and a little south of Pawnee City. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph flattened crops and downed 4 inch in diameter tree limbs. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | Hail just under baseball-size fell from just west of Pawnee City into town. The hail fell for 5 to 10 minutes before it started raining as it gradually shrunk to golf ball-size and smaller. The hail damaged some crops, vehicles and homes in the area. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | The time was estimated. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | The hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 50 mph. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated by a spotter at 60 mph were accompanied by dime size hail. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at least 60 mph downed a large tree in Pawnee City and also downed many tree limbs. The winds also blew a window out of a vacant building, and a few cars were damaged by fallen tree limbs. Trees and power poles were reported broken on county roads 2 miles west and 2.5 miles north of town. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs in town which damaged playground equipment at a park. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph blew over a tree which briefly closed a county road southwest of Pawnee City. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | Three outbuildings destroyed. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Pawnee City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Pawnee City | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pawnee County Courthouse | under 500 feet | 1990 |
 | US Post Office-Pawnee City | under 500 feet | 1992 |
 | Pawnee City Carnegie Library | 0.2 miles | 2010 |
 | E. F. Hempstead House | 0.5 miles | 1982 |
 | Lindsley House | 5.6 miles | 1999 |
 | Table Rock Opera House | 5.7 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94000066 in Record Group 79. |
| Pawnee County | All 12 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.