People's Union Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“People's Union Church is a historic church in Scambler Township, Minnesota, United States. Uniquely, it was founded in 1915 and maintained by a society of local women as a non-denominational house of worship.”
Wikipedia article People's Union Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Otter Tail County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 48566 205th Ave., Scambler Township, 56572
When was it listed? August 2004
Category. building
Township. Scambler township
National Register reference number. 04000836 - 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 ground it stands on

67 words

This property stands in Scambler Township. Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War;, published 1919 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Scambler Township - 67 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of People's Union Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 242 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	7
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
26 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	67 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1992	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail 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
	O. A. E. Blyberg House	7.1 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000836 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otter Tail County	All 27 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.