Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“Stanton Airfield is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) east of the central business district of Stanton, in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States. The airport is privately owned by Stanton Sport Aviation, Inc.”
Wikipedia article Stanton Airfield, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Goodhue County · listed in 2004 · category: District.
National Register reference number.04000722- 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.
The first settlement was made in 1855, by a party of emigrants from Dodge county, Wisconsin, consisting of Wm. Stanton, sen., John Stanton, Norman Daniels, Robert Deakin, Wm. Stanton, jr.. Samuel Daniels, George Gould and others. These men with their families located claims near the southwest corner of the township, and the settlement was called Stanton in honor of the oldest settler, Mr. Wm. Stanton, senior. This section of country is a beautiful valley, surrounded by high lands, rendering the place picturesque in the extreme, full of native beauty and marvelous scenic loveliness.
Subsequently the township was re-christened and now bears the title of Stanton. The appellation may be more appropriate in honor of the early settlers of that name, but " Lillian " is the more fluent and poetical term.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carleton Airport
in 1994, burning about 50 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Carleton Airport: 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Stanton, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 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.
The Northfield tornado (which originated in Rice County) dissipated on the south side of Lake Byllesby, but not before destroying several sheds and causing minor damage to 12 homes.
Roads barricaded at the intersection of County Roads 1 and 9, as well as at Highway 52 and 100th. Numerous township roads were also flooded. Near Stanton, Prairie Creek overflowed its banks and flooded a pasture. Rainfall measurements include 5.30 inches in Goodhue and 5.90 inches in Wanamingo.
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 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.
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.
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.
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