BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Murray County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
4-H Club Building, Murray County Fairgrounds
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. off Broadway Ave., Slayton, 56172
- When was it listed? December 2005
- Category. building
- City. Slayton city
- National Register reference number. 05001436 - 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 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of 4-H Club Building, Murray County Fairgrounds in 2004, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
28 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slayton, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 19 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 lightning. 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | $200,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a building, damaged trees and road signs, and blew a semi trailer on its side. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a granary building. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Slayton | $2,000 | Lightning struck a house, causing damage to the side of the house and burning off cable television wires. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured by Automated Weather Observing System site KDVP 1 mile west-southwest of Slayton. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a laundromat. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Significant tree damage was reported east of Slayton. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Automated site KDVP 1 miles west of Slayton measured thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Thunderstorm wind measured by automated weather station KDVP near Slayton. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Peak gust was measured at the Slayton Municipal Airport. Time estimated from radar, as occurred during the 10 minutes prior to 0159LST. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Slayton | - | Social Media Report. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree down onto a building. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The amount of damage was not known. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slayton | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dinehart-Holt House | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Avoca Public School | 5.9 miles | 1979 |
 | Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Turntable | 7.8 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05001436 in Record Group 79. |
| Murray 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.